Credit where credit is due, Sunak has managed to come back with a deal that is palatable to most people.
Whether the DUP endorse it, or continue to avoid sitting in Stormont remains to be seen.
However, the deal will not fall if they are the only opposition to it. Therefore if the deal goes through, the only means that Ulster will have to block any EU laws it doesn't like is via Stormont (which won't sit until the DUP come back to work!).
Sunak and VdL will allegedly announce the Brexit deal today, whether it survives a possible mauling by the ERG and DUP remains to be seen!
Maybe this weekend, according to rumours Sunak will tell his cabinet that there will be a deal announced on Monday.
Then again, maybe not!
Don't hold your breath, as it all depends on the DUP.
With Zelensky in London and Brussels and Biden about to visit Warsaw, it’s a new Europe where Paris and Berlin play almost no role
— Bruno Maçães (@MacaesBruno) February 8, 2023
NEW: The EU will accept the principle that GB goods shipped to NI and staying there should be treated differently to goods moving south into the single market and as such will agree to a green and red lane model at ports, as proposed by the UK, a senior EU official tells @rtenews
— Tony Connelly (@tconnellyRTE) February 6, 2023
All of this will come to now't, if the DUP blow it out of the water!
