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An Orange lodge, which includes two former DUP politicians as members, has told Sir Jeffrey Donaldson he must not lead the party back to Stormont until all its seven tests are fully met.
A fortnight before Christmas, a senior unionist rang about the DUP’s talks with the Government. At the end of the conversation, the individual said of the proposed deal on the Irish Sea border: “I do think if this goes through that it’s the end.”
The bromance is officially over. The relationship between Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Jamie Bryson, which blossomed in those heady days of anti-protocol protests, has come to a swift but unsurprising end.
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s passionate speech in Parliament this week showed a very different side to the DUP leader.
Jim Allister has warned that the Prime Minister’s reported offer to sacrifice some of Britain’s freedoms in a bid to appease the DUP and restore power-sharing “would make a nonsense of Brexit”.