Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal for Northern Ireland has been formally signed off, without the support of the province’s largest unionist party.
On Friday, the Windsor Framework was legally adopted in a meeting chaired by both Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic days after MPs voted overwhelmingly in its favour.
But the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)—which this week voted against a key part of the new framework—suggested it would not be returning to the devolved government in Northern Ireland even if the deal was put in place.
Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris had warned the DUP that there was no prospect of renegotiating the deal ahead of Friday’s meeting, which comes after Brussels also formally agreed to the key parts of the Windsor Framework at a European Council meeting….