America's top trade negotiator has said the risk from Brexit to the Northern Ireland peace process remains a significant block to prospects of a free trade deal between the UK and USA.If they don't stop pissing about this world-beating ™ trade deal is dead before it's started .
US trade representative Katherine Tai's comments came during talks in Aberdeen with UK counterpart Anne-Marie Trevelyan.
The UK government is keen to get a US deal, to show post-Brexit progress.
The talks, due to continue on Tuesday in London, are informal.
Ambassador Tai was speaking after the UK government floated plans for an Act of Parliament that would effectively revoke the protocol agreed with the European Union, risking the return of border posts around Northern Ireland and a destabilisation of the Good Friday peace agreement...
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