The post-Brexit crisis in Northern Ireland is finally over

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : To restore the devolved institutions on these terms represents a memorable achievement, considering the demographic and political decline of Unionism in the intervening period.
58% : Thus, the Windsor Framework was agreed in February 2023, with its green lane, deals on VAT and human medicines, and enhanced democratic checks on EU regulation for Northern Ireland's Assembly.
56% : Alignment with EU regulations largely affects the production sector (manufacturing and agriculture in the main), representing about 18 per cent of Northern Ireland's economy, and this sector continues to be governed by UK commercial, fiscal, environmental and employment laws, as well as by UK macro-economic policy and Northern Ireland's own policies and legislation on skills, education and planning.
49% : In practice, EU alignment was always overstated - it never came close to making EU law dominant in Northern Ireland.
48% : He has managed to do so in the face of EU intransigence, an unhelpful White House, the 'resistible rise' of Sinn Fein in the Republic of Ireland, hard-line Loyalist rejectionism, and purist Brexiteer scepticism.

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