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Boris Johnson saves trickiest Brexit challenge, Northern Ireland, for last

Northern Ireland is arguably both the most perilous, and the least soluble Brexit riddle taxing the UK prime minister. Even his more modest goal of convincing the power-sharing government to reconvene looks unlikely.

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