Latest updates: government faces deepening row with EU over Northern Ireland as PM also faces questions over UK’s shrinking economy
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Here is the agenda for the day. Boris Johnson is being interviewed by Nick Ferrari on LBC shortly. Johnson tends to grant interviews like this only reluctantly, and his last major intervention in the morning broadcast round – his interview with Susanna Reid on ITV’s Good Morning Britain last month – wasn’t a great success. His LBC appearance should give us some news.
There is plenty for Ferrari to ask him about. The Northern Ireland protocol bill is being published today, and Archie Bland has a good preview in his First Edition briefing.