{"id":1405048,"date":"2022-03-28T14:15:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T18:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405048"},"modified":"2022-03-28T14:16:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T18:16:28","slug":"uk-to-strain-every-last-sinew-to-get-n-ireland-protocol-deal-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-to-strain-every-last-sinew-to-get-n-ireland-protocol-deal-minister-says\/","title":{"rendered":"UK to \u2018strain every last sinew\u2019 to get N.Ireland protocol deal, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuk-to-strain-every-last-sinew-to-get-n-ireland-protocol-deal-minister-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1405048&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-28T173404Z_1_LYNXNPEI2R0XC_RTROPTP_0_BRITAIN-POLITICS_1.jpg\" alt=\"Weekly cabinet meeting in London\" \/><br \/>FILE PHOTO: Britain&#8217;s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Brandon Lewis walks outside Downing Street in London, Britain, February 1, 2022. REUTERS\/Henry Nicholls<\/div>\n<p>March 28, 2022<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) \u2013     Britain will \u201cstrain every last sinew\u201d to reach agreement with the European Union on overhauling Northern Ireland\u2019s post-Brexit trading arrangements before considering suspending parts of the deal, its minister for the region said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Britain and the EU have been trying for months to solve an impasse over the Northern Ireland protocol, the trading rules for the British-run region which London signed up to but now says are unworkable. <\/p>\n<p>Britain has long threatened to trigger Article 16 of the deal that allows either side to unilaterally stop implementing parts of the protocol. Northern Ireland Minister Brandon Lewis said the safeguard measures were \u201con the table\u201d but that the British government\u2019s preference was not to have to use them. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur focus has to be and it rightly is \u2013 for myself, the foreign secretary and the prime minister \u2013 on resolving these issues by agreement with the EU,\u201d Lewis told a parliamentary committee in London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will strain every last sinew we can to get that agreement. I fully appreciate we are not seeing anything like the flexibility or pragmatism that I think is required in order to resolve these issues, but we will continue to work on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The EU offered a package of measures to ease the transit of goods to Northern Ireland last October. Lewis said there was \u201ca real issue\u201d that the mandate EU negotiators have been given by the bloc\u2019s national leaders is preventing them from improving their offer.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Padraic Halpin in Dublin; Editing by Paul Simao)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: Britain&#8217;s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Brandon Lewis walks outside Downing Street in London, Britain, February 1, 2022. 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