UK and EU agree to meet to try to resolve Northern Ireland dispute

British and EU officials have agreed to meet for the first time in months to discuss how to resolve a bitter dispute over Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading arrangements, in a sign that new UK prime minister Liz Truss wants to improve relations with Brussels.

Negotiations to find a breakthrough over the Northern Ireland protocol, the part of the UK’s Brexit deal that regulates trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland,…