''Fears of Brexit hold-up over UK-US steel spat'' BY EMILIO CASALICCHIO

 Westminster is worried that instead of improving trade between the U.K. and the U.S., Brexit is making it more difficult.

Suspicions are mounting, including inside the British government, that a trade dispute between the two countries — which should have been put to bed a month ago — is dragging on due to wrangling over the Northern Irish protocol.

U.S. President Joe Biden has warned the U.K. to tread with caution on the pact governing trade between Northern Ireland, Great Britain and the EU in the wake of Brexit, and fears an upset could imperil the hard-fought peace in the nation. But the British government has been threatening to trigger a nuclear clause in the protocol that could bring it crashing down.

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