US President instructed his senior diplomat in London to deliver an official dressing down of UK’s Brexit Minister Lord Frost in a rare diplomatic move between allies.
Yael Lempert, a senior official at the US Embassy in London, reportedly told Brexit chief Lord Frost that the UK government was “inflaming” tensions in Northern Ireland by disregarding the customs protocol agreed with the EU.
The extraordinary diplomatic row threatens to overshadow Boris Johnson ’s first face-to-face meeting with President Biden today in Cornwall ahead of the G7 summit.
The two leaders are due to agree a new Atlantic Charter, echoing the one signed almost 80 years ago by Churchill and Roosevelt, to “build back better” on post-Covid relations and the.
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