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The Orange Order has said it wants to see “tangible progress” on issues of key concern around the NI Protocol.

Three days ago, a remarkable Westminster power grab took place — but the DUP and Sinn Fein were in complete acquiescence.

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson faced ferocious criticism from senior party colleagues on Tuesday night, as his claims about the Irish Sea border were described by another peer who campaigned with him as “deception”.

It was the moment the DUP was meant to trumpet its great victory for the Union — but instead visually demonstrated how Northern Ireland is isolated and the DUP divided.

A year from now, Sir Keir Starmer will almost certainly be Prime Minister. If rumours of a May 2 election are true, he could be in Downing Street in just 69 days.

Only around a third of voters believe that Stormont will still be functioning in three years, a new survey has suggested.

The work starts now on transforming Northern Ireland’s economy, new Economy Minister Conor Murphy has declared, while dual market access — the benefit of Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit status that once dared not speak its name within departmental walls — will now be openly embraced in the Department for the Economy (DfE).

The first opinion poll after Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s big step in bringing his party back to Stormont will have made DUP headquarters jittery all week.

Two-thirds of unionists believe the DUP was right to sign up to the government’s deal and return to Stormont, with just a quarter against the move.

Nationalism usually comes suffused with ideas of racial purity. It is wary of the foreigner and seeks to establish a nation for a distinct people, whether Kurds, Jews, Tibetans, Palestinians, Irish or English.