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Edwin Poots is emerging as the frontrunner to be Stormont’s next speaker, according to DUP sources.

As important as it was for Sir Jeffrey Donaldson to win over his party to restoring Stormont, that was never where his hardest battle lay.

After 727 days without a government in Northern Ireland, Stormont looks finally ready to return. It could happen before the weekend if the process to restore the institutions is fast-tracked— and it’s not before time.

Seven-and-a-half years of ridiculous post-Brexit grandstanding to reach two obvious conclusions.

Business has a litany of asks of an incoming Executive, such as rates and planning reform, more capital spending on infrastructure and a childcare strategy.

Loyalist activist Jamie Bryson and TUV leader Jim Allister have laid down a challenge for DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson to debate publicly the party’s trade deal with the UK Government.

What unfolded on Monday night was not just the humiliation of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson by a man he thought he could outsmart, but the collapse of any remaining aura of invincibility around the DUP.

What unfolded on Monday night was not just the humiliation of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson by a man he thought he could outsmart, but the collapse of any remaining aura of invincibility around the DUP.

Senior members of the DUP “took their own risks” when opting to “wear a wire” to leak details of a private meeting on the deal between the party and the government, a loyalist activist has said.

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has won the battle to bring his party back to Stormont, but opponents of the deal haven’t given up hope of still winning the war.