Now that Liz has put Lavrov in his place, it should be lots easier to do the same with Brussels of the EU.

Liz Truss warns EU she may have `no choice' but to alter NI protocol | The Guardian |

Liz Truss warned Maroš Šefčovič in a phone call that unless the EU showed the "requisite flexibility" in talks over the trading arrangements she would have "no choice but to act".

Truss said she had told Šefčovič the protocol was "the greatest obstacle" to forming a new Northern Ireland executive following last weeks' elections.

"The foreign secretary noted this with regret and said the situation in Northern Ireland is a matter of internal peace and security for the United Kingdom.

The attorney general for England and Wales, Suella Braverman, was said to have approved the scrapping of large parts of the Northern Ireland Brexit deal, according to reports.

'Sapere aude'