Boris Johnson will urge Northern Ireland's politicians to get powersharing back up and running as the Government seeks to resolve the deadlock with Brussels over post-Brexit trading arrangements.
The Prime Minister will travel to Belfast on Monday for a series of crisis talks after the DUP blocked the election of a Speaker at the Stormont Assembly, preventing it from sitting.
The move was bitterly condemned by Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill - whose party is now the biggest in the Assembly following elections earlier this month - and other party leaders.
