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US speaker threatens UK trade deal over Brexit
By EUobserver
The US will not sign a UK trade pact if it reneges on its Brexit withdrawal agreement, endangering open Irish borders, as it has threatened, House speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday. "If the UK violates that international treaty and Brexit undermines the Good Friday accord [a 1998 peace deal on Northern Ireland], there will be absolutely no chance of a US-UK trade agreement passing the Congress," she said.