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Threats won’t keep me from Northern Ireland deal, DUP chief declares – POLITICO

Threats won’t keep me from Northern Ireland deal, DUP chief declares – POLITICO

Democratic Unionist leader Jeffrey Donaldson says he’s determined to get Northern Ireland’s cross-community government restored — and won’t be deterred by die-hards from his own side of the divide. In the most impassioned speech of his DUP leadership, Donaldson told the House of Commons on Wednesday he’d just received threats from loyalist hard-liners. He said they sought to brand him a traitor before he’d even clinched an agreement with the U.K. government on ending the DUP’s blockade of power-sharing at Stormont following two years of deadlock over post-Brexit trade rules. “The Provisional IRA (Irish Republican Army) attacked me in the past and it didn’t deflect me from the task — and I will not be deflected now … We are committed to getting a solution,” he told lawmakers to an unusual chorus of praise from other parties. Donaldson was speaking during debate on the U.K. government’s latest effort to save Stormont — a bill to extend the deadline for reviving the multi-party administration, to be jointly led by the DUP and the Irish republicans of …