After weeks of playing down expectations of an imminent Brexit agreement, Rishi Sunak is now setting the formal wheels in motion to lay out the deal he has struck with the EU
As a result, focus drifted from the domestic politics meaning the DUP were not brought on board and ultimately her premiership was sunk by her own backbenchers.At the time a DUP source briefed the press that"this is a battle of who blinks first, and we've cut off our eyelids".
That about sums up the concrete resolve of a group for whom politics runs a lot deeper than just party allegiance.
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