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DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has reiterated his party’s position on the condemnation of violence on Friday morning, saying politics is the “only way that we will succeed” in dealing with issues caused by the protocol and Windsor Framework.

Northern Ireland Office minister Steve Baker has opened up on feeling “repugnant” and experiencing a “really dark episode” in his mental health as a result of politics.

The SDLP has said it is concerned by the BBC’s “balance of editorial decisions” after its south Belfast representative Matthew O’Toole was taken off-air during Friday morning’s Nolan Show.

?Can you picture them? The DUP’s legal and constitutional experts poring over details in the Windsor Framework? Me neither. The party isn’t scrutinising the fine print or checking footnotes, it’s playing for time – finger in the air to test which way the wind is blowing.

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has reiterated his party’s position on the condemnation of violence on Friday morning, saying politics is the “only way that we will succeed” in dealing with issues caused by the protocol and Windsor Framework.

Former DUP minister Simon Hamilton has said the business body he now leads is hopeful the Windsor Framework could unlock investment and growth.

Clarity and confidence will be the biggest gains for business from this week’s Windsor Framework, which is designed to break the impasse on trading relations that dogged the Northern Ireland Protocol.

The majority of people who identify as neither unionist or nationalist believe Northern Ireland should remain part of the UK, according to a new poll.

A DUP MP has said it is “high time” Michelle O’Neill and Naomi Long apologised for their “rigorous implementation” calls.

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has said that the Windsor Framework shows the UK government is “decisively taking back control in a host of areas from Brussels”.