LONDON—British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sept. 14 a bill that would break international law by breaching parts of the Brexit divorce deal was needed because the European Union hadn’t taken a “revolver off the table” in trade talks.
Johnson accuses the EU of threatening to use the withdrawal treaty agreed in January to put up trade barriers between mainland Britain and Northern Ireland, and even to impose a food blockade, the latest brinkmanship of a four-year saga since Britain voted narrowly to leave the bloc.
