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THE IRISH BORDER QUESTION: CAN THE UNION SURVIVE?

A new #BattleFest recording from the Battle of Ideas festival 2021:

https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/session/the-irish-border-question-can-the-union-survive/

 Is it time for Unionists to accept a border poll as a democratic resolution and prepare their best arguments to save the Union? How should British citizens view the threat to the Union? If Lord Frost eventually tears up the Protocol, will that save the Union and resolve the border tensions? Or has the unravelling of the border become a fait accompli, based on the instability inherent in partition?