The EU insisted on setting aside the Province’s usual requirements for cross-community support. That could have consequences.
Also: SNP’s nuclear hypocrisy forces MoD to consider relocating Trident even though an independent Scotland would join NATO.
Also: Ministers give opponents of Troubles amnesty six weeks to propose alternatives and square off to the devocrats over freeports.
Successive Secretaries of State have preferred to bribe the local parties back to the table than to govern. This must change.
Plus: Biden was the adult in the room at the G7. And: Why I support mandatory vaccinations for care home workers.
Unlike the former Ulster Unionist leader, the new DUP one is set to stick with his voter and party base. But you never know.
Plus: Why on earth has my bank shortened its name to Abrdn? And: The DUP should think carefully about toppling Arlene Foster.
A united front against the sea border might be their best chance – regardless of the headaches it causes in Dublin, Brussels, or London.
Political leadership is needed in Belfast no less than in London – in some respects, even more so.
If he cannot or will not convince them that its guarantees of their British status are real and meaningful, its days are numbered.
Also: true scale of the Irish Protocol’s impact on commerce, and Stormont’s ‘rank incompetence’, show how Ulster unionism needs a refresh.
Also: Johnson in Scotland to fight back against the SNP; Tory backbenchers set up new unionist research caucus; and more devolved woe in Ulster.
Also: Plaid suspend high-profile candidate over antisemitic comments; DUP call on O’Neill to ‘step aside’; and Anglesey spared shake-up of Welsh seats.
Why should a Conservative want to create a ratchet effect that only ends up with higher rates?