jim alister has been the dup arch _ wider reaction.has been the dup arch nemesis. he - wider reaction. jim alister has been the dup arch nemesis. he is - wider reaction. jim alister has been the dup arch nemesis. he is one i wider reaction. jim alister has been the dup arch nemesis. he is one of| the dup arch nemesis. he is one of the dup arch nemesis. he is one of the seats here in the assembly a traditional unionist voice, a party which is more hard—line than the dup, the dup under pressure not to accept that deal, not to resurrect power re—sharing here becausejim alister would be opposed to sinn fein first minister coming as well indeed being the case of michelle o�*neill being first mr as institutions are restored. so the dup bearing in mind the electoral threat from mr alister given that there are constellations coming up in just over a couple of months�* time. worth bearing in mind that most assembly members elected to stormont are broadly in favour of protocols as a means of managing post—brexit. sinn fein vice president who is

jim alister , thank you protocol. jim alister, thank you very much indeed forjoining us.rland, stay me through that. i mean, it's a pretty depressing story and he's right , you know, they have been right, you know, they have been victimised in the most appalling part of the eu and i would agree on that. there is a point here though, isn't there, that if the united kingdom chooses, if we, britain choose to start diverging eu law, we will find ourselves being northern ireland allows will become further and further apart . we well let's not further apart. we well let's not run before , we can walk brexit run before, we can walk brexit is very complex. we know that very difficult this is about balancing but this is a long term decision that we're talking about. that's i'm really about. that's what i'm really saying. devil's in the saying. it is devil's in the detail. when you look at the detail, that's the deeper detail, that's what the deeper doing right now is indeed illegal, but this is about balancing the pursuit of perfection against the application pragmatism. we've com