the alliance party and sinn fein, the alliance party and the greens, and yesterday the dup and the uup are in brussels and arlene foster has started a news conference. she is giving us an idea of what she thought about what michel barnier had to say. she's not been particularly positive about the concept of making the backstop looked less dramatic and palatable. she says the problem isn't the technicalities, if the problem is the very concept of a hard border. this idea but as an insurance policy northern ireland would remain part of the customs arrangements, the customs union, and still be part of elements of the eu single market. this idea that it would have a different relationship with the eu, and a different trading and economic relationship with the rest of the world of the consequence, compared to the rest of the united kingdom. their problem isn't the drama ties to technical checks, it's the concept of the backstop itself. that's the message she gave at the conference in the last few minutes. given that, adam, give us a sense of how, apart from the backstop issue in brussels, t