People ‘already beginning to see benefit of DUP deal over trading concerns’

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has hailed a new agreement on the movement of some goods into Northern Ireland as he said people are already beginning to see the benefits of the deal his party has struck with the Government.

Sir Jeffrey also predicted the green lane element of the Windsor Framework “will go” as he expressed hope that the Stormont powersharing institutions can be restored within days.

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has said her party is satisfied that the 1998 Good Friday Agreement has not been damaged or undermined by the DUP deal over post-Brexit trading arrangements.

The end of the two-year Stormont impasse was signalled in the early hours of Tuesday morning when Sir Jeffrey secured the backing