UK and EU to seal Northern Ireland Brexit deal
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the deal in FebruaryAfter more than a year of talks, which at times stopped, re-started or even imploded, big parts of the Windsor Framework will be signed off later.ItHowever the Democratic Unionist Party remains unconvinced and is still refusing to re-enter power-sharing.
But the DUP and some Conservative MPs voted against the deal, saying the UK government had to make changes to it.It is likely that the UK government will offer some constitutional reassurances to the party. Where that would leave a possible return to power-sharing is the question - one without an obvious answer.
Ministers had to be in post to make the case to the Treasury for extra funding for Northern Ireland. ahead of a budget that Ms O'Neill said was set to cause "catastrophic damage to public services".
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