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Ireland starts making contingency plans for UK trade war with EU
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Ireland has begun making contingency plans for a possible trade war between the EU and the UK in the event that Boris Johnson walks away from the Northern Ireland Brexit protocol.
Ireland’s deputy prime minister, Leo Varadkar, also confirmed that suspending the trade deal struck by Lord Frost last December was the EU’s likely response should the UK trigger article 16 of the protocol.
Her told RTE News at One on Tuesday that such a move would in effect undo the entire Brexit deal and precipitate a collapse in relations with the EU.
“I don’t think anybody wants to see the European Union suspending the trade and cooperation agreement with Britain,” he said.
“But if Britain were to act in such a way that it was resigning from the protocol,
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