The DUP and Sinn Fein might be trading blows in the Stormont election campaign, but there is one point on which the big two parties have found common ground.
Neither are calling for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign over Downing Street's lockdown parties controversy.
Both Assembly parties have the same aloofness over the Conservative leader being fined for breaking Covid laws - but for different reasons.
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While Sinn Féin usually rails against the Tories on every possible occasion, on this one issue the party is pulling its punches.
Deputy leader Michelle O'Neill said Mr Johnson's position was an internal matter for the Conservative Party.
She said: "Well, Boris Johnson's position is a matter for the Tory party and for the British public and I'm sure they'll make their own judgment on that in the time ahead."
Sinn Féin did not think the same about rivals Fine Gael in the Irish Republic when calling for Tánaiste Leo Varadkar to resign last year over a GP contract row.
In reality, Sinn Féin knows it cannot similarly call for Mr Johnson's resignation because of the Bobby Storey funeral controversy in West Belfast during Covid lockdown restrictions.
It would look ridiculous for Sinn Féin to try and take the moral high ground when in 2020 senior party figures, including Ms O'Neill, joined huge crowds for the funeral despite strict limits on public gatherings.
The party would open themselves to further criticism at a time when they are seeking to portray an image ahead of May's election of being responsible partners in government.
During the election campaign, Sinn Féin also wants to avoid comparisons around the lack of prosecutions over the funeral compared to Mr Johnson's fine for a small birthday gathering.
Prosecutors in Northern Ireland last year concluded there was no reasonable prospect of conviction due to a lack of clarity in Stormont's Covid regulations in place at the time and the nature of engagement between funeral organisers and the PSNI.
The DUP had called for Ms O'Neill to step down as Deputy First Minister over the funeral controversy, but cannot bring itself to do the same on Mr Johnson.
The party is alone on the opposition benches at Westminster in refusing to call for the Prime Minister to go.
DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said Mr Johnson had shown more contrition than Ms O'Neill but he added: "As to the Prime Minister's future, that is a matter for him and the Conservative Party.
"I'm not going to join in a chorus, because I can't in the end, influence the decision the Prime Minister has to take.
"He has to take that decision but what we need in the United Kingdom right now is stable government. We need leadership."
In the end, the DUP fears changing the Conservative leader and Prime Minister will set back its efforts to secure changes to Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol.
After all the broken promises from the British government, the party is still holding out hope that Mr Johnson will be their Brexit saviour.
It is putting its faith once again in a man who claimed an Irish Sea trade border would be "damaging the fabric of the Union" - and then later signed up to the Protocol to "get Brexit done".
It is a position of powerlessness and desperation, demonstrating how far the DUP has fallen in their influence in the years since propping up a minority Tory government in 2017 with a confidence and supply deal.
Mr Johnson is now to face an MP committee inquiry into whether he misled parliament over Number 10 lockdown parties, once the Metropolitan Police has finished its probe into the gatherings.
It means the row rumbles on. With the DUP and Sinn Fein focused on the Assembly election, the parties might also find another point of common ground - hoping this controversy will be parked for now.
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