Also: female Tories press the Prime Minister for action on Ulster abortion law; and Davies urges Party to unite over Brexit.
It’s a counter-intuitive take – but it’s what the sum of opinion polling in recent years tends to suggest.
It looks to be the least bad medium-term means of settling the future of abortion laws in Northern Ireland.
Also: Davidson calls for ’emotion bonds’ of the Union to be strengthened; SNP face tough choices on independence ‘summer offensive’; and more.
Understandably, the unionists and republicans we interviewed have very different views on the questions facing the Province.
He fears that while “the Government’s words remain robust, its deeds become weak”. Plus: the Rees-Mogg family spent the Royal wedding playing “sermon cricket”.
We are being nudged towards Norway Minus rather than Canada Plus Plus Plus almost without anyone noticing.
So much of the Government’s strategy is predicated on the belief that this is impossible. But what if that’s wrong?
Some remainers will not give up on the idea that the UK is about to fall apart, but the latest evidence of that from Ulster is threadbare at best.
The architect of Universal Credit is deeply sceptical that the Government could design and implement a completely new system in time.
The Shadow Brexit Secretary explains that Labour want a comprehensive customs union and a ‘strong single market relationship’.
“Last December there was a clear agreement… that there would be no border infrastructure of any kind.”
The best way forward might be a statute of limitations on past conduct that covers the United Kingdom as a whole.
Also: Welsh Tories criticise Jones’ delayed departure; Welsh Labour row over voting reform continues; Trimble attacks ‘scaremongering’ over Ulster; and more.
“Two years later no-one knows what they want, even the Tory party. Theresa May says one thing and Boris Johnson says another.”