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BORIS JOHNSON has been warned he needs to get "extremely tough" with the European Union in the row the Northern Ireland Protocol or risk the devastating breakup of the UK.
Late last month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was reported to be on the verge of triggering Article 16 and overhauling the post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland but was persuaded otherwise by his Brexit minister Lord Frost. But the warning to deploy the so-called "nuclear option" was rumoured to have still been issued to Ireland, with UK officials understood to have made clear it is Mr Johnson - and not Lord Frost - who is in fact most in favour of triggering Article 16.