If, as is speculated, the intention of the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, in advancing a pproposal for a law on the British internal market which contradicts the terms set out in the Protocol of Ireland accompanying the “Brexit” agreement, was to pressure the European Union to make concessions in the negotiations of the future trade agreement with the United Kingdom, the plan could hardly have gone worse. Not only did it not achieve the desired effect on the continental side, it produced side effects on the other side of the Atlantic, undermining the aspirations of the British Conservative leader to sign a trade liberalization treaty with the United States.
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