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EU envoy stokes NI row warning there is no alternative to protocol James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo The EU s ambassador to London today stoked the row over Northern Ireland insisting there is no alternative to the protocol that unionists want scrapped.   Joao Vale de Almeida accused new DUP leader Edwin Poots of being unrealistic after he raged that the rules were being used to punish the UK for leaving the bloc.  He said Brexit created the problem and the only solution was to implement the new rules pragmatically . There have been rising concerns that the post-Brexit rules agreed by Boris Johnson are fuelling sectarian tensions in Northern Ireland, amid unionist anger about obstacles to trade with the UK mainland. 

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