LONDON (Reuters) – Foreign minister James Cleverly told U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Britain’s top priority was to protect the Good Friday Agreement, a government spokesperson said on Wednesday.
“He (Cleverly) explained the Protocol is, however, causing real problems in Northern Ireland which we must fix,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
Cleverly met with Blinken at the U.N.’s General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
(Reporting by William James and Farouq Suleiman)