I doubt if she needs the support, if the polls are right, and the Graun may only be making a last bid to prop up Sunak with this:
Liz Truss may trigger article 16 days after becoming PM, amid Brexit row
Tory frontrunner understood to have received new advice about emergency clause as Northern Ireland legal deadline looms
The foreign secretary and Tory leadership frontrunner is understood to have received fresh advice from trade and legal experts about invoking the emergency clause contained in the post-Brexit deal...The deadline for doing so is 15 September – 10 days after the next prime minister will be announced...With a lengthy parliamentary battle expected over the Northern Ireland protocol bill, a senior Truss ally quoted in the Financial Times described the triggering of article 16 as a “stopgap” until the legislation is passed.
Truss’s antipathy towards the protocol has grown in recent days, after British steel producers were told they would have to pay a 25% tariff to sell some construction products into Northern Ireland....The UK government [also] claimed the EU was causing serious damage to research and development in both the UK and EU member states, with Britain frozen out of the science research programme Horizon; Copernicus, the Earth observation programme, which provides data on climate change; Euratom, the nuclear research programme; and space surveillance and tracking
The GHuran turns to a well-known Parliamentary democrat for a counter:
the Sinn Féin MP for North Belfast, [who] said “reckless threats” to trigger article 16 were evidence of the UK government’s “total disregard for the democratic wishes of people and businesses here”.He said the protocol was supported by most people, companies and elected politicians in the Northern Irish assembly, but the Conservatives had tried fiercely to undermine it. Finucane urged Truss to “get back to the table with the EU to give certainty and stability to our businesses".
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