After a two-year wait, could Northern Ireland get a working government again?

Live from the BBC World Service, this is the Marketplace Morning Report.

I'm Luke Wilson in Flee Anna Byrne.

Good morning. There's been a big development in Northern

Ireland overnight as one of the country's two biggest political parties said it would return

to government. The Democratic Unionist Party had walked out over trade rules

that were put in place as part of the UK's Brexit deal with the EU. The BBC's

John Campbell is in Northern Ireland's capital Belfast.

Hi John.

Hello there look.

So remind us how long has this dispute been going on and what was it all about?

Well the DUP has been boycotting government in Northern Ireland for almost two years now, but the routes of this are much deeper. They really go back to the point at which the United Kingdom decided it was going to leave the EU.

And the reason being there is that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, but it shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland,

which is an independent state and is a member of the EU. So there was the real danger that the UK

leaving the EU would mean they would have to be a new hard land border

between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland with checkpoints and

customs posts and so forth. But both the EU and the UK as well as the Irish government agreed this would be a

terrible idea given the history of the Irish border as a site of conflict and division.

So eventually after a long negotiation they came up with the idea

well Northern Ireland will formally leave the EU but will remain inside the EU's single market for

goods therefore goods can flow freely across the Irish border

with no checks or controls. However, that had the effect of moving the border to the Irish

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