Brexit: UK and EU at impasse over changes to Northern Ireland protocol

Britain and the European Union are at an impasse over changes to parts of the Brexit deal governing trade with Northern Ireland, Britain's Europe minister James Cleverly told a parliamentary committee on Thursday.

The two sides have been trying for months to overcome a deadlock over the Northern Ireland protocol, which sets the trading rules for the British region that London agreed before it left the EU but now says are unworkable.

Britain's EU withdrawal pact effectively left Northern Ireland within the EU's single market and customs union given its open border with EU member Ireland, though in so doing