Could the DUP be prepared to accept a time limit on the #Brexit backstop? And could they sell that to party members?

Mar 04, 2019, 10:25 AM

The DUP's leader at Westminster, Nigel Dodds, is to sit on a 'star chamber' of Brexit lawyers who will scrutinise changes to the Government's Withdrawal Agreement. It comes amid speculation that the DUP shifted, or are they about to shift, their position on the Brexit backstop. Could the DUP be prepared to accept a time limit on the backstop, rather than ruling it out entirely? And could they sell that to party members? Stephen spoke to News Letter's political editor Sam McBride, DUP MLA Jim Wells, and the deputy leader of the Alliance Party, Stephen Farry.