It is an “inevitability” that the government in Northern Ireland will collapse again unless issues around the Northern Ireland Protocol are resolved, First Minister Paul Givan said on Monday. The Protocol, a part of the UK’s Brexit deal, left Northern Ireland in the EU’s single market to avoid a hard border between the region and the Republic of Ireland, but it has effectively put a trade border in the Irish Sea, separating Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK. Givan, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)-appointed first minister, said that while he is committed to Northern Ireland’s self-governance and wants the power-sharing Northern Ireland Assembly to work, the current situation is not “a tenable position.” It “has been the success of the past” to bring the unionists and nationalists together into the government because “everybody has felt they can be part of this process,” Givan told the BBC’s “Talkback” programme, adding that …