DUP leader warns he will not shy away from ‘difficult decisions’

The DUP leader has already signalled his party will collapse the Stormont Executive. Picture: Peter Morrison/PA

Jeffrey Donaldson has told DUP members he will not shy away from difficult decisions in the coming months as he warned that the UK’s economic and constitutional integrity lie in the balance.

The DUP leader has already signalled his party will collapse the Stormont Executive, a move that would place an onus on the Government to trigger a snap Assembly poll, if major changes to Brexit’s contentious Irish Sea border are not secured in the coming weeks.