This will be politically utterly toxic - and put UK and Irish govt on collision path 1/thread
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As one senior Tory says to me: "it poses the question of how much Boris Johnson cares at all about Northern Ireland". /12
Work is ongoing to stand up Stormont government, but given what is ahead, a lot to expect Sinn Fein to do deal now. /13
Must it starts with legislation to effectively suspend the Good Friday Agreement? /14 ENDS