Northern Ireland
Deirdre Heenan: The DUP must be wary of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Any stalling by Jeffrey Donaldson on the Windsor framework will allow the naysayers to gain momentum, and a rejection of it by the DUP will lead to the North being viewed as ungovernable
After a long and torturous Brexit journey, hopes are high that an end to the toxic wrangling over the Northern Ireland protocol may finally be in sight.
At a joint press conference last week, Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, and Rishi Sunak, the British prime minister, unveiled the Windsor Framework and hailed a “decisive breakthrough”, marking a turning point in relations between the two sides.
The mood between the leaders was joyous ...