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After months of intense negotiations aimed at undoing some of Boris Johnson's catastrophic Brexit failures, Rishi Sunak and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a new agreement over Northern Ireland had been reached - but will it be enough?

The leader of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) on Monday said his party was now studying the legal texts published earlier in the day setting out proposed new post-Brexit trading arrangements agreed between Britain and the EU.

His opposition to the revised Northern Ireland protocol should be treated with the same contempt with which he ran the party, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Britain and the European Union on Monday agreed a crucial overhaul of trade rules in Northern Ireland, a breakthrough aimed at resetting seriously strained relations since Brexit.

Result of vote ‘will be respected’, says PM – who says DUP will take ‘time and space’ to consider deal

The genius of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA), also known as the Belfast Agreement, was that it achieved more than a compromise. The document is reasonably short and worth reading in full, if for no other reason than you might bump into Lady Sylvia Hermon in the street.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has struck a new deal with the European Union on post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland and he said it would pave the way for a new chapter in London's relationship with the bloc.

The FTSE 100 Index was also trading 0.6% or 50.7 points higher

"An agreement has been reached. The deal is done"