Having secured a relatively Brexit-free zone in his audience with U.S. President Joe Biden, Boris Johnson must have known he could not avoid the subject for the entire G7 weekend. On the summit’s second day, the U.K. prime minister endured meeting after meeting of EU leaders pressing him on his country’s commitment to fully implementing the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement. Johnson was clearly unhappy with the ear bashing. “I’ve talked to some of our friends here today who do seem to misunderstand that the UK is a single country and a single territory,” he told Sky News. “I think they just need to get that into their ... (full story)

Boris Johnson has threatened to suspend a key Brexit deal on Northern Ireland in an increasingly bitter row with the EU. The prime minister spoke after meeting key EU players in the margins of the G7 summit in Cornwall, as wrangling over the Northern Ireland protocol threatened to overshadow the gathering. French president Emmanuel Macron on Saturday morning urged Johnson to “keep his word” and apply the protocol in full, while European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and European Council leader Charles Michel told him to “implement what we agreed on”. German chancellor Angela Merkel also discussed the ... (full story)