the previous deal had been blocked by northern ireland's democratic unionist party but its leader, arlene foster, said she was pleased to see today's agreement means there will no customs barrier in the irish sea. we believe that there have been substantive changes and we are pleased to see those changes. for me, it means that there is no red line down the irish sea and we have the very clear confirmation that the entirety of the united kingdom is leaving the european union, leaving the single market and the customs union and that is an important statement to have. it is also vitally important that the integrity of the united kingdom was kept in place. there are still matters they are that we would've liked have seen clarified. we ran out of time, essentially. we think that we needed to go back again and talk about those matters. the prime minister have decided to go to brussels in relation to this text and she says she has done that in the national