Since Northern Ireland has always been a separate legal jurisdiction, there has always been "a border down the Irish Sea". So far, that border, in itself, has never "broken up the United Kingdom".
Has the very comprehensive level of devolution to Northern Ireland, and that for the second time, "broken up the United Kingdom"?
Has the legal status of the Welsh language "broken up the United Kingdom"?
Has the Established status of the Church of England "broken up the United Kingdom"?
Has the existence of totally different systems of English and Scots law "broken up the United Kingdom"?
The Union is defined by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Compared to what that body has already found it quite within its capacity to accommodate, keeping Northern Ireland within the Customs Union in order prevent the reemergence of a "hard border" in Ireland would be a perfectly simple thing to do.
It may or may not be a good thing to do. But it would be a perfectly simple one.
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