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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shop, the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. I'm

Isabelle Harman and this is the Sunday Roundup. Boris Johnson is to pay a visit to Northern

Ireland tomorrow to try to smooth things over following the Assembly elections earlier

this month. With Sinn Fein securing the most seats for the first time and the DUP threatening

not to form part of the government at all, it does not promise to be a particularly

stress-free day at the office.

The business secretary, Quasi Quarteng, joined Sophie Ridge to discuss what the government

intended to do about the contentious Northern Ireland protocol.

Obviously, the DUP have said that they don't want to engage in power-sharing until parts

of the Northern Ireland's protocol are fixed in their view. And various cabinet ministers,

including Liz Trast, Dominic Rob, on this programme have been very clear that they don't

think the protocol is currently working. Does that mean that the UK government is prepared

to unilaterally scrap parts of that protocol, even without EU agreements?

Absolutely right. Throughout this whole debate, even before the protocol and the treaty

was conceived, we've had a number of people in this country whose presumption has been

that the British government is always wrong, and that the EU is always right. And that's

clearly too simplistic. We've tried to be enter into good faith. We've tried to negotiate.

We've drawn the treaty. But we've always said, even Article 16 of the protocol itself says

that it can be abrogated, you know, laterally. If it's shown not to be working and clearly,

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