The Indo Daily: Trade Wars – why Europe v Britain will cost you more for butter, beef and booze

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June 16 2022 02:30 AM

Christmas Eve 2020 Boris Johnson proclaimed he had won a good Brexit deal for the UK. Fast forward 18 months and the Prime Minister published his proposed bill to change the terms of the Northern Ireland Protocol unilaterally.

As the EU prepares to launch fresh legal action against the UK following Boris Johnson’s attempt to unilaterally rewrite the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol arrangements – are we on the verge of entering a costly Trade War?

Presenter Tabitha Monahan is joined by Irish Independent political journalist John Downing and Sunday Independent's Northern Ireland journalist, Ciarán O'Neill