During the pandemic, the leaders of the UK’s four nations looked after their citizens differently, showing up borders that may previously have been invisible.

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"When the govt talks about a four nations approach, they tend to mean they tell us what the decision is and expect us to fall into line."

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says if the Union split, the four nations 'would still have to work together' https://trib.al/3agCY6J 

'If the UK was to fracture then everybody will have to think about the way the individual nations can go on working for everybody.'

First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, says there is no rising tide for independence in Wales

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First Minister of Northern Ireland, Arlene Foster, says the Brexit deal and the protocol 'damaged the relationship between the two of us and between the parties'

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"The Union of the UK is, for me, the greatest political partnership the world has ever seen."
 
PM Boris Johnson says it would be "such a shame to lose the power and the magic" of the Union, and the four nations are "stronger and better together"

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