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The DUP has accused Labour of double standards as MPs debated partygate investigator Sue Gray’s “unprecedented” planned move to party leader Sir Keir Starmer’s office.

One of the enduring paradoxes of NI politics is how the two major parties most dedicated to either achieving or preventing Irish unity repel so many people from the causes they cherish.

A former DUP MLA and Stormont minister has claimed Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is “keen to do a deal” and accept the Windsor Framework despite opposition from within the party.

A day after the Rev Ian Paisley broke the habit of a lifetime and said yes to power-sharing with Sinn Fein in 2007, one of his closest DUP associates told me why he had no alternative but to do the deal.

The DUP needs to build a time machine and travel back to 2016 if it’s to escape the unholy mess that it’s trapped in.

Alliance deputy leader Stephen Farry has said he broadly welcomes the protocol deal but wants to see Northern Ireland back in the EU as soon as possible.

One of the enduring paradoxes of NI politics is how the two major parties most dedicated to either achieving or preventing Irish unity repel so many people from the causes they cherish.

Behind the scenes in the DUP this week, there have been heated arguments between some of the party’s senior Westminster figures while publicly others have broken ranks to publicly denounce a deal they know their leader is keen to accept.

The ‘neithers’ in Northern Ireland are a little known lot. We’re well versed in the views of unionists and nationalists on the big issues of the day.

Pro-Brexit unionism (both here and via a regenerated and disgruntled English nationalism) has clearly done far more damage to the stability of the Union than anything pro-Good Friday Agreement unionism ever did.