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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast.

I'm Natasha Froze and I'm joined by James Heale and Katie Bulls.

Geoffrey Donaldson, leader of the DUP, has just said he will vote against the Windsor Framework.

Katie, that doesn't look great for Rishi Sienaak at the moment. What's happened?

Yeah, I think this will be disappointing for 10 Downing Street.

Ultimately, there was no expectation that DUP would be cheering this deal on

or rushing through the ILOBby. But there was a hope that you wouldn't have

the DUP as a group or vote against it. And what Geoffrey Donaldson, the leader, has said today,

is that the party will, you know, unambiguously, all be voting against the Windsor Framework.

Now, the part that's being voted for on Wednesday is the Stormont break.

This, when the deal was first unveiled, was probably seen as one of the most significant wins,

which I think is one of the reasons the government does not need to have a vote in the first

place to get this through. But I think to not have a vote would have angered the commons and

people can find ways to force votes. But this, when the reasons are going for this as a vote,

ultimately, it is a mechanism by which you could have a unionist majority, so two parties come

together to veto new single market rules from the EU that would then need the UK government to

also agree, but therefore you can stop Northern Ireland diverging. Now, some people thought this

is one of those things that actually objectively, I think, has been talked about in the past,

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