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Red Lines

Unravelling the Windsor knot

Red Lines

BBC

Government

4.674 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Mark Carruthers assesses the Windsor Framework and whether the DUP will accept it with Gareth Gordon, John Campbell and Suzanne Breen.

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0:00.0

No prizes for guessing what we're talking about on this week's Red Lines.

0:04.3

There's really only one show in town at the moment, and that's the Windsor Framework.

0:08.6

So for the next half hour or thereabouts, we'll be discussing what's in it, what's not,

0:13.1

and how unionism in particular deals with it.

0:16.0

Gareth, we've all been hit with a huge amount of detailed information and reaction in the past 48 hours.

0:22.8

Are you still snowblind at this stage?

0:25.3

Yes.

0:26.2

You want it the short answer.

0:27.3

That's the short answer.

0:28.7

Absolutely.

0:29.1

Well, I'm kind of, mantima right, luckily, is we can rely on him to read every line.

0:35.9

Every jot and title, as somebody once said.

0:38.6

I know he has done.

0:40.0

So I kind of wait till he writes something

0:42.1

and then I say that's what the framework means.

0:45.9

We're more obsessed in the political unit

0:48.7

with what the DUP are going to do.

0:51.4

And if you're going to ask me,

0:52.2

do I know the answer to that?

0:53.7

I'll tell you later on. Okay. I can't wait. I suspect I know the answer, but we'll come on to

0:59.1

that in a moment. John, it's great to know that your work is appreciated by your peers. Are you still

1:03.7

uncovering interesting little gems in the text you didn't know we're there? The legal texts

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