There had been talk an announcement could come on Tuesday, say Chris Mason and Jessica Parker
The short answer is - a lot.Don't expect a deal to be announced on Tuesday.There had been talk that an announcement could come on Tuesday.Here's a sense of what we had gleanedPreparations were being put together, including the arguments the government would make to its backbenchers and to businesses.
Both the DUP and some Conservative MPs think Rishi Sunak made a mistake to hurtle over to Belfast at the end of last week, unannounced, to try, as some saw it, to "bounce" the Democratic Unionists into agreement."There isn't a deal to be done. It is back to the drawing board," said another Conservative backbencher, who doesn't like the sound of what they are hearing.
"They're not going to say 'job's a good'un' and dash back in, we know that," acknowledged one senior government figure.
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