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Politico (14 April 2021)

By Emilio Casalicchio

The U.K. is under strain and Boris Johnson wants to fix it with love.

The British prime minister will take his usual approach of aggressive optimism, and a heavy splash of cash, to counter the fast-growing pressures that threaten to crack the union apart. Scotland is again threatening to break free from Westminster. Violence — fueled in part by tensions over Brexit — has broken out in Northern Ireland. Even Wales is seeing a surge in nationalist support.

Johnson’s solution: “Project Love” — according to Alister Jack, the U.K.’s secretary of state for Scotland and one of the three territorial ministers interviewed for this article.

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