The foreign secretary, now chief negotiator with the EU, wants ‘a comprehensive solution’
Photograph: Alberto Pezzali/APPhotograph: Alberto Pezzali/APThe UK’s newly appointed chief post-Brexit negotiator, Liz Truss, said she would speak to her EU counterpart, Maroš Šefčovič, on Tuesday amid renewed calls to rip up the controversialThe cabinet minister, who is also the foreign secretary, said she wanted to negotiate “a comprehensive solution” to the agreement, which requires post-Brexit checks on goods arriving in Northern Ireland from Great Britain.
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