Is the Framework really a big deal?
Yes. Assuming the deal is now passed by Parliament – a near-certainty since it has Labour’s backing – it will mark a “remarkable watershed”, says Andrew Neil in the Daily Mail. The Windsor Framework consolidates Northern Ireland’s position within the UK, while honouring the Good Friday peace agreement and the province’s special relationship with the Republic and EU single market. But the framework “also heralds a new era of good feelings between London and Brussels from which both sides have much to gain. And it imbues Rishi Sunak’s premiership with a