UK Brexit minister warns of ‘cold mistrust’ era with EU

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Brexit curate has warned of a semipermanent chill successful relations betwixt the U.K. and the European Union if antecedently agreed trading arrangements governing Northern Ireland are not resolved. David Frost said successful a code astatine the British-Irish Association successful Oxford that the Northern Ireland Protocol needed “substantial and important change.” The post-Brexit trading statement betwixt the British authorities and the European Union has seen customs and borderline checks imposed connected immoderate goods moving betwixt Northern Ireland and the remainder of the U.K. Frost has for months sought changes to the protocol, which helium helped to craft, but the EU has repeatedly rejected opening up discussions again aft years of protracted negotiations.