Frost slams EU’s ‘fiction’ over Ireland

THE European Union’s ‘purism’ is endangering the peace process in Northern Ireland, the UK’s former chief Brexit negotiator will warn today.

Lord Frost blames Brussels and Dublin for creating problems by pushing a ‘fiction’ that there is an integrated economy across all Ireland.

His comments come as the Government prepares to publish a law to override the Northern Ireland Protocol despite the EU threatening a trade war. The protocol imposes stringent checks on goods arriving in the province by sea from Britain to avoid a hard border with Ireland.

In a report by think-tank Policy Exchange, Lord Frost says the Good Friday Agreement is now in peril because of EU ‘purism’ – rather than pragmatism – over the protocol.