Did Orlean Foster fire the starting pistol for next year's Assembly election

when she said her party will work to remove the Northern Ireland protocol at the earliest opportunity?

We're all still getting to grips with what Brexit means for people here,

but as things stand, the DUP is refusing to accept any share of responsibility

for the emergence of an Irish sea border.

So, could the party's handling of the Brexit saga over the past four and a half years lose it votes in 16 months time?

Could it, Newton?

It's not inevitable that Brexit will be a disaster for the DUP at the next election,

but the party is making it inevitable by continually banging on about what a disaster

Brexit is and turning this election into a contest for the vote on the sea border, which unionism

can only lose because it doesn't have a majority anymore. Sarah? Yes, it could. Their strategy for Brexit

was a disaster. They're going to be judged for that. And now we've got the

Northern Ireland Protocol. But I do think a lot really does depend on how things, how the Northern

Iron Protocol sort of progresses as we go forward and how that, whether that is going to be a disaster

or not. I think that's going to be key. Tim. Well, I think the DUP needs to sort its message

and sort it out fast.

Is it good? Is it bad?

Is somebody else to blame for this?

Is the DUP going to accept any responsibility for it?

Its message is confused and it's not consistent.

And until it sorts that message out, then there is potential for votes to be lost.

So lots to discuss in this first red lines of 2021 with my guests, Newton Emerson, Sarah Crouton and Tim Kairns.

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