The Northern Ireland Assembly has returned after the Democratic Unionist Party accepted a deal for some adjustments to the trade border in the Irish Sea.
With yet another compromise on Northern Ireland – and on its place in the United Kingdom – the Democratic Unionist Party may yet suffer the same doom it inflicted on the Ulster Unionists before them.
His party walked out of Stormont because of the trade border which Theresa May and Boris Johnson introduced between Northern Ireland and the mainland during the Brexit negotiations. Despite some wild overselling of the Windsor Framework last year, that border has not gone away.
The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act expressly provides in Section 19 for an immunity system. Yet Sir Declan Morgan, the judge overseeing the process, says an adverse judgment will kill it.
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Recent polling shows the party well ahead of both the UUP and the TUV, meaning the current deadlock would simply be reproduced.