The prime minister insisted on Monday that a plan to effectively override parts of the Brexit deal with Brussels was 'not a big deal' as he was warned the move would 'deeply damage' relations with the European Union and Ireland. 'I think our higher and our main international obligation is to the Belfast Good Friday agreement, to the peace process in Northern Ireland, getting that Stormont assembly up and running,' he said while visiting a farm in Cornwall, south-west England
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