US speaker threatens UK trade deal over Brexit
The US will not sign a UK trade pact if it reneges on its Brexit withdrawal agreement, endangering open Irish borders, as it has threatened, House speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday, according to EUobserver.
"If the UK violates that international treaty and Brexit undermines the Good Friday accord [a 1998 peace deal on Northern Ireland], there will be absolutely no chance of a US-UK trade agreement passing the Congress," she said.
Britain announced draft legislation that explicitly acknowledges some of its provisions would break international law, according to a copy seen by Reuters.
The proposals, which the government has said would break international law “in a very specific and limited way”, have contributed to concerns that Britain could leave the EU in four months with no new agreement on trade.
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