But some of her party members blame her for the emergence of an Irish Sea Border. “They were asking that the leadership should resign, but people were signing up on a principle that perhaps wasn’t clear,” says the DUP source. It’s understood the previous week, Poots met with a number of supporters who told him it was “now or never”. “There are a number of female representatives who are very clear that they feel there is that mentality,” says a DUP source. During meetings with British prime minister Boris Johnson she was never introduced by him as ‘Arlene Foster from the DUP’ but ‘Arlene Foster from Fermanagh’.

Source: Irish Independent May 02, 2021 01:30 UTC