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Coming up on the show Ireland in the EU The Woke Royals and trans kids. The UK's Brexit crisis is escalating as the European Union rejects Prime Minister Boris Johnson's push for a new deal.

Boris Johnson has said he won't talk to the Irish

and he won't talk to the EU

until they accept that they're going to give up the backstop.

The backstop is dead.

It's got to go.

As each day passes with no agreement,

the threat and the menace of a hard border becomes all the

more real.

Ireland has become central to the Brexit negotiations between the UK and the EU.

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