The NI Protocol may be a long way down Sunak’s list of most pressing concerns, but a dysfunctional Stormont is forcing the issue. His shared heritage with the incoming Irish Taoiseach may help.
The DUP’s persistent refusal to nominate a deputy First Minister suggests gridlock is set to continue.
If Stormont is not revived by midnight, then a new election must be called within 12 weeks.
The Monarch’s six-hour stopover in Northern Ireland went better than anyone predicted, and may just have changed the political dynamic at Stormont.
The majority of Northern Irish Tory members are expected to vote for Truss, hoping that, unlike the outgoing PM, she might actually keep faith with Ulster and prove true to her word.
As a former correspondent for the paper, seeing ones letters published conjures up memories of formative years.
Trimble will be remembered as a determined realist, without whom there would have been no Good Friday Agreement.
The PM is pursuing victory over the Protocol as if it were the diplomatic equivalent of Agincourt, with him as Henry V.
After the PM’s lightning tour of Northern Ireland and the foreign secretary’s threat in the Commons, a solution to the crisis appears as far away as ever.
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