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First minister paul given intends to announce his resignation from his post this afternoon, that is a braking line coming from the nolan show. is this connected to what edwin poots said last night? what can you tell us? it certainly is connected to the dup s opposition to the northern ireland protocol. as we said, in the last few minutes my colleagues on the nolan show on bbc radio ulster have been reporting that paul given, the first minister in the stormont executive, the senior democratic senior democratic unionist party politician has written a letter of resignation which he intends to later on today. now, the leader of the gp, sirjeffrey donaldson, now, the leader of the dup, sirjeffrey donaldson, has been saying for several months now that unless there is sufficient progress as he sees it towards scrapping the irish sea border checks in the negotiations between the uk and the eu, he is prepared to throw his ministers out of the power sharing devolved government. ....

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