Prime Minister Johnson runs along the beach in Carbis Bay, during the G7 summit in Cornwall. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hold talks with the European Union’s key players on Saturday as the dispute over Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading arrangements threatened to derail his hosting of the G7 summit. Restrictions on British-produced chilled meats entering Northern Ireland are due to come into force at the end of the month. Mr Johnson has suggested the EU is taking an “excessively burdensome” approach to post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland. At a press conference ahead of the G7 summit, Mrs von der Leyen insisted the protocol is the “only solution” to prevent a hard border with the Republic and must be implemented in full.

Source: Irish Independent June 12, 2021 07:18 UTC