About 13.8% of DUP voters, and 15.7% of all unionists, said the DUP should not revive Stormont, while about a quarter of both groups expressed no preference. The figure for nationalists was 54.9% agreeing, 6.2% disagreeing and 30% neither agreeing or disagreeing.Īlmost half of DUP voters, and 44.9% of all unionists, said the revised deal meant Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s party should revive the Stormont assembly and executive. The poll, conducted between 3 and 14 March before the DUP said which way it would vote, showed that 56.2% of unionists believe the Windsor framework removed many negative consequences of the protocol, with 11.4% disagreeing and 22.2% neither agreeing or disagreeing. The government is expected to win the vote with Labour support. The Democratic Unionist party (DUP) and hardline Brexiter Conservative MPs said they will vote against the so-called Stormont brake, a centrepiece of Sunak’s deal, citing flaws in the purported veto for Northern Irish politicians over new EU regulations. The Irish News and the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies published the findings on Wednesday as the House of Commons prepared for the first parliamentary vote on the deal agreed last month by Downing Street and the European Union. Nationalists were slightly more opposed to the deal than unionists – 19.1% versus 15.7% – underlining a widespread belief it was a victory for unionism.

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