ANNUAL 2023: NORTHERN IRELAND – NORTH’S COMA

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson made clear at his party conference in October that he wants to return to Stormont but the majority of the DUP’s eight MPs are opposed to that happening.

The British government’s best effort at making political progress in the north was the Windsor Framework, which was agreed with the EU on February 27. In the words of the DUP’s Ian Paisley MP, it “did not cut the mustard”. The DUP has refused to join an executive at Stormont since collapsing it last year…. Read more »