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29 September 2019

Is anyone actually listening to the DUP?

Speaking on the Conservative conference fringe, Arlene Foster flatly rejected the sort of compromises on the backstop we are told her party will accept.

By Patrick Maguire

It’s often said that the DUP leadership, or at least elements within it, are shifting on the question of the Irish backstop – the main bar to the deal Boris Johnson professes to want.

But when that proposition is actually put to its leader, Arlene Foster, her answers give the opposite impression. 

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