Northern Ireland’s biggest unionist party will vote against a key part of the new Windsor framework trading arrangement in Westminster this week.
“Our party officers . . . met this morning and unanimously agreed that in the context of our ongoing concerns and the need to see further progress secured whilst continuing to seek clarification, change and reworking, that our members of parliament would vote against the draft statutory instrument on Wednesday,” said Democratic Unionist party leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson.
Wednesday’s vote is on a mechanism known as the Stormont brake that is designed to allay unionist concerns over the imposition of new EU legislation.
The vote will pass but a DUP “no” dims the prospects of a swift return to the power-sharing government at Stormont, which the DUP has been boycotting since May.
This is a developing story.
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