Northern Ireland’s DUP first minister Paul Givan has resigned, bringing the power-sharing executive, which governs the province under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, to the brink of collapse.
In an emotional statement delivered at a Belfast hotel, Mr Givan said that the Northern Ireland protocol, agreed as part of Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal, had disturbed the “delicate balance” between communities that was established by the 1998 agreement and the 2006 St Andrews deal on devolution.
