'Difficult to reopen' protocol talks if deal rejected, Taoiseach warns

 Pictured is Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in the courtyard of Government buildings today, as he delivered a statement on the agreement reached today between the EU and the UK, 'the Windsor Framework' at Government Buildings this evening. Photograph: Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie

It will be "difficult to reopen" the Windsor Framework if unionists reject it, the Taoiseach has warned.

Leo Varadkar was speaking at Government Buildings after the deal was announced, but said that any further negotiations would be hard to foresee. DUP MP Ian Paisley Jr has already warned that the deal "doesn't cut the mustard" for unionists.