Johnson can't be bothered to sit down with the Irish Government to try to find a way forward on the N Ireland situation.
Belfast Telegraph last night:
Hopes are rising of a deal between the UK and EU that could help ease tensions in Northern Ireland, it was reported on Sunday night.
The Financial Times said progress was being made in negotiations about how to apply the new trade rules under the Northern Ireland Protocol.
The FT reported that recent talks had led to optimism over how the Protocol, which has affected trade from Great Britain into Northern Ireland, could be implemented. ...
While tensions remain high, the UK Government was reportedly reluctant to convene a special summit with Dublin leaders to discuss the street violence and the overall fragile political situation.
Dublin has suggested to London that the crisis requires an inter-governmental summit that can be called under provisions of the Good Friday Agreement, according to a report by the Observer newspaper.
The request was relayed to Boris Johnson's government via diplomatic channels late last week, but was turned down, the paper reported.
"There is a fear of upsetting unionists, a worry that this would be seen as Dublin interfering too much in the affairs of Northern Ireland," a source told the paper.
However, on Sunday night a senior official at Number 10 said it has "not refused anything".
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Belfast Live today:
Threats which led to staff being withdrawn from Brexit checks at Northern Ireland's ports may have been fuelled by alcohol, according to Stormont papers.
"Renegade individuals" rather than loyalist paramilitaries or organised gangs were considered responsible for actions which led to increased security fears.
The threat assessment in February was labelled as "low" and "realistically is as low as it will be", correspondence seen by Belfast Live reveals.
The Agriculture Minister, DUP MLA Edwin Poots, temporarily withdrew staff from Belfast and Larne Ports following a similar decision by Mid and East Antrim council...
The Assembly's DAERA committee is holding an inquiry into the decision to withdraw port staff.
Sinn Fein MLA Philip McGuigan, deputy chair of the committee, said the documents further call into question the decisions and accused the DUP of escalating tensions.
He said: "The suspicion has always been that there was never a credible threat at the time that MEA council and Edwin Poots withdrew their staff from the Ports.
"Now we see it confirmed in this correspondence that the PSNI were telling DAERA and the council that the threat was low and 'as low as possible'.
"As well as the level of threat being low, DAERA were also aware that any perceived threat was coming from individuals fuelled with drink and was not coming from within organised loyalism."
The DUP and DAERA did not respond to requests for a comment.
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