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Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator.

Every week we take a look at some of the most important and intriguing stories from the issue with the writers behind them.

I'm William Moore, the Spectator's Features Editor.

This week, is Boris Johnson planning to tear up Britain's deal with the EU?

Plus, does the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade stand up to constitutional scrutiny? And finally, is Eaton College going through an awokening?

First up.

James Forsyth writes in his spectator cover story this week that Boris Johnson plans to reignite the Brexit voter base by taking on the EU again over Northern Ireland.

He joins me now, along with Dennis Staunton, the London editor of the Irish Times, who writes in this week's magazine about how Sinn Féin has benefited from the DUP's collapsing support.

James, in your cover piece this week, you write about proposed government legislation to tear up post-Brexit plans in Northern Ireland.

Obviously, this is a subject with a lot of complicated technicalities,

but could you give a brief summary of the government's plans for our listeners?

So to get a withdrawal agreement, the UK government agreed to the protocol. Boris Johnson agreed to

it, fought the 2019 election on that deal, which included that won a large majority.

What that deal does is essentially create a

regulatory border in the Irish C between Great Britain and Northern Ireland so that you can

maintain an open border on the island of Ireland so you don't need to go back to having kind of

border checks. And the reason you need that regulatory border in the Irish C is so that you don't

have goods being produced in Great Britain that aren't compliant with EU rules and regulations going into Northern Ireland and going then from Northern Ireland into the EU.

Boris Johnson has almost from the moment he won that majority chafed against this deal.

And in autumn 2020, he suggested through the

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