There is "no excuse" for the DUP blocking Stormont following the Windsor Framework deal on Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol, Alliance leader Naomi Long has said.
She dismissed suggestions the DUP's boycott strategy helped secure the landmark agreement easing Irish Sea trade barriers, saying it was "coincidence rather than correlation".
Mrs Long insisted the deal between the UK and European Union could have been reached several years ago if former Prime Minister Boris Johnson had not been in power.
