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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. I'm James Hill. I'm joined today by Isabel Hartman

and Fraser Nelson. The subject that's grouping all of Westminster is, once again,

an online protocol, is about tell us where we're at the moment.

So it dominated Prime Minister's questions this week as you'd expect.

And Kirstama had his six questions on it, but the most important question of the session came

from Geoffrey Donaldson, the DUP leader, who also addressed the European Research Group ERG

of MPs last night. And he asked the Prime Minister for certain assurances, particularly on the

democratic deficit. So he said that he asked the Prime Minister to accept that it would be a scandal.

Northern Ireland remained subject to you laws that it couldn't amend.

And Rishi Sunak praised Donaldson to the Hilt and talked about the democratic deficit,

which is something that conservative MPs who he's been having meetings with over the past

48 hours have been raising timbers, something that he really needs to make a priority and the

negotiations that are ongoing. The other really important thing that came out of this session

was the Prime Minister saying that there was going to be some kind of vote in the comments on

the matter, the government doesn't have to put this to a vote once there's an agreement, if there's

an agreement. But this is something that Kirstama has been demanding is something that backbenches

and the Conservative Party have been demanding. And so he said, of course, the comments will express

its view when he was asked about it today. Now, talking to lots of members of the ERG who were

at the meeting last night with Jeffrey Donaldson and who've also been in for meetings with

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