Power sharing is due to return to Northern Ireland this afternoon for the first time in almost two years.
MLAs are currently electing a new assembly speaker at Stormont the first stage in bringing back the executive.
There’s been no devolved government there since February 2022 – when the DUP walked out in protest at post-Brexit trade arrangements.
That party’s leader, Jeffrey Donaldson, says he’s pleased with the new deal offered by the Westminster government which has ended his party’s boycott:
