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Boris Johnson is set to visit Northern Ireland on Monday for crunch talks to resolve the power sharing crisis, and warned that he was ‘not bluffing’ over his threats to rip up the protocol.
Yesterday, the DUP blocked the election of a Speaker in protest at the post-Brexit deal on Northern Ireland, leaving the Stormont government – now dominated by Sinn Fein – unable to function.
Mr Johnson is poised to override the hated protocol within days to try to resolve the crisis, after Brussels ruled out renegotiating.
The Government has drawn up legislation to unilaterally suspend all border checks on goods flowing from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, a move sanctioned by the Attorney General.
DUP Leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson with party colleagues, speaking at the podium in the Great Hall of Parliament Buildings at Stormont before entering the Assembly Chamber to sign the Roll of Membership
Mr Johnson told the Daily Mail: ‘The Good Friday Agreement, the peace process, relies on a cross community system of government in which there is a collection of views around the
