Britain warned the European Union on Monday it would trigger safeguard measures in their divorce deal if the bloc failed to agreeto changes to smooth trade with Northern Ireland, saying the agreement had 'come apart even more quickly than we feared'.
"Without an agreed solution soon, we will need to act, using the Article 16 safeguard mechanism, to address the impact the protocol is having on Northern Ireland," Frost told a sparsely populated hall at the Conservative Party's annual conference in the northern English city of Manchester.
Since Britain left the EU's single market at the beginning of this year, difficulties in sending some goods from the mainland to its province of Northern Ireland has prompted the government to repeatedly call for changes to the protocol. Frost admitted the government had wanted to negotiate "something better" than the protocol, which created a de facto customs border between Britain and Northern Ireland, but would act independently to protect peace on the island of Ireland.
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