removing the ned for checks on some good moving into northern ireland from the rest of the uk. this was deeply unpopular with unionist politicians who want northern ireland to be part of the uk and so don t want any barriers between northern ireland and the rest of the uk. in fact, the biggest unionist party, the dup, is now blocking the formation of a new northern irish government in protest over it. here s one of its mps. the protocol is the kind of poison in the system. we have a forced coalition in northern ireland and that enforced coalition only works if, on major issues, there is a consent from both the unionist population and the nationalist population. there is no consent for the protocol from the unionist population, so therefore, in effect, we have a dysfunctional assembly anyway and the message we have been getting to the government is look before the assembly can ever be set up, the poison needs to be withdrawn from the system. the government says that the amendments it
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