DUP cannot give timetable for return to powersharing, says Donaldson

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Sir Jeffrey said his party can only make a decision on its next move when the incoming prime minister is in office and has made clear their intent on Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol. While it had been anticipated that the Bill’s passage through its Commons stages last month might have prompted the DUP to take an initial step back into powersharing, by allowing the nomination of a Speaker, the resignation of Boris Johnson and subsequent uncertainty over the next prime minister’s attitude to the Bill has seen the party delay that first move. We need to know is that prime minister going to reopen negotiations with the European Union, and what might that mean DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldon Sir Jeffrey told BBC Radio Ulster: “We need to know where that new prime minister is going with the Protocol Bill. There is only one fitting tribute to David Trimble and that is for all of us here at Stormont to get the institutions back up and running again, to deal with the issues, including the protocol Ulster Unionist MLA Mike Nesbitt “It’s not going to go anywhere.