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	Podcast:		In The News
	Episode:		Why is the Democratic Unionist Party tearing itself apart?
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:25:52
	Publish Date:		2021-06-09 03:00:00
	Description:		In Northern Ireland, Unionism has been in an unhappy place since the turn of the year, when the Northern Ireland protocol, the part of the the Brexit deal that creates a customs border in the Irish Sea, was implemented. Now Unionism's main party, the Democratic Unionist Party, is in political turmoil after a change in leadership left many of its membership angry and alienated. With an election less than a year away, and with a real possibility of Sinn Féin becoming the largest party at that election, can the DUP under new leader Edwin Poots come together to save the Union - or do its problems run too deep? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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