When devolved government returned to Northern Ireland earlier this year, Rishi Sunak channelled his inner Inspector Clouseau.
‘Now is not the time’ (to debate reunification), the headlines ran, conjuring up images of the new First Minister, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill, leaping out of a cupboard, Cato-style, and bashing the PM over the head with a proposed border vote.
Historians are notoriously bad at predicting the future. So I won't presume to say when
