Raab attacks EU leaders who see Northern Ireland as different to UK
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has called for a bit of respect from EU leaders as he claimed the bloc's senior figures serially talk about Northern Ireland as if it were somehow a different country from the UK.
The UK and EU are currently at loggerheads over the implementation of post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland known as the Northern Ireland Protocol ahead of the end of a "grace period" for some border checks at the end of this month.
The row has threatened to overshadow the UK's hosting of the G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, this weekend - during which Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed some in the EU needed to get into their heads that the UK is a single country.
The prime minister's ire is reported to have been raised during his bilateral talks with French Pre...