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Coffee House Shots

What could still scupper Northern Ireland's power-sharing plan?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

After hours of late night negotiations, power sharing looks like it's back on in Stormont – or is it? James Heale talks to Katy Balls and TalkTV's Peter Cardwell about the latest political developments in Northern Ireland.

Produced by Cindy Yu.

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0:00.0

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0:15.6

Hello, welcome to coffeehouse shots.

0:20.4

I'm James Heel.

0:21.2

I'm joined today by the Spectators political editor Katie Balls and the chief

0:24.6

political commentator of Talk TV Peter Cardwell. Now Katie overnight we've got some

0:28.0

exciting news that there is likely to be power sharing restored at Stormmont

0:31.2

after nearly two years. Talk through what's happened.

0:33.4

Yeah, so this is a significant step, but it's not yet a done deal when it comes to the path

0:38.9

back to power sharing. But what you had in the early morning of Tuesday was a press conference with Jeffrey

0:44.8

Donaldson, the leader of the DUP and that followed a long meeting four or five hours

0:50.6

of the DUP executive where Jeffrey Donaldson put forward a new deal agreed

0:55.7

with the UK government suggesting that this went far enough in solving lots of

1:00.3

concerns and this all goes back two years ago to when the DEP collapsed the

1:05.5

executive because they objected to the post-trading agreement from the Brexit deal.

1:10.8

Now if you go back to the EU referendum if if you want to go back, it's a real

1:14.4

trip down memory lane today. All the warnings at the time you have John Major and I was saying,

1:19.1

if you vote for leave there's going to be a serious problem in terms of the border on the island of

1:23.3

islands and it was at the time I don't think taken particularly seriously and

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