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Ireland warns hard brexit could break up the UK

Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar has warned that a hard Brexit could threaten the place of Northern Ireland and Scotland in the UK as Boris Johnson told EU leaders that Britain will leave the bloc without a deal unless they drop the so-called Irish backstop.

In a highly unusual intervention on internal British politics, Mr Varadkar said that if there were a no-deal Brexit on October 31, “more and more people in Northern Ireland will come to question the union”.

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