The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has warned the government not to give in to Brussels, saying it would result in the UK becoming "an increasingly peripheral country".

Any post-Brexit agreement must appeal to all sides, the prime minister has been warned.

Rishi Sunak has been warned not to strike a post-Brexit agreement that the Democratic Unionist Party will reject.

Foreign secretary James Cleverly took part in EU talks yesterday – fuelling speculation that problems around the controversial Northern Ireland Protocol could soon be resolved.

The DUP has refused to take part in Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government in protest against the protocol that effectively put an EU trade border across the Irish sea, separating Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK.

And veteran Tory Eurosceptic Sir Bernard Jenkin warned any deal that does not resolve this would be ‘disastrous’.

‘If it doesn’t get the support of both communities in Northern Ireland it is just going to make things worse, because it will cement in place an agreement that has destroyed power- sharing,’ he told Times Radio.

Sammy Wilson, the DUP chief whip at Westminster, accused ministers of going into EU negotiations with ‘an attitude of defeat’.

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