‘No chance’ of pact with the US if law is broken

A TRADE deal with the US is in serious doubt if the Government breaches international law on Brexit, senior American politicians have warned.

Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, said there will be ‘absolutely no chance’ of a US-UK trade deal passing Congress should the UK override the current Brexit deal.

Mrs Pelosi, pictured left, warned that any attempt to violate an international treaty, or ‘imperil’ the peace agreement in Northern Ireland, would not be tolerated in the US.

Her warning came after the UK Government published a Bill to allow it to renege on aspects of the Withdrawal Agreement struck with the EU last year. Mrs Pelosi said: ‘There will be no bilateral US-UK trade agreement if the Good Friday Accords in regard to the border are changed. How can they walk away from an international agreement and how can we trust that?

‘Their self-determination is up to them, our trade relations are up to us.’

Downing Street said it remained committed to the Good Friday Agreement. But after emergency talks with the EU yesterday, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, inset, said he had told the European Commission that the UK ‘would not and could not’ withdraw its Bill.