UK to defy EU by scrapping Northern Ireland trade rules: ‘bureaucratic simplifications’, says Prime Minister Johnson

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Britain will set out plans on Monday to override some rules that govern post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland in a move that will inflame tensions with the European Union and could spark a trade war. Britain has been threatening for months to rip up the Northern Ireland Protocol, an agreement for the British-run region struck by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government in order to secure a Brexit divorce and wider trade deal between Brussels and London. As part of the agreement, Northern Ireland effectively remained in the EU single market for goods to preserve an open border with EU-member Ireland...