...the other shoe has dropped.

After weeks of intransigence by the DUP, today a temporary budget was agreed. It was voted through by the DUP and Sinn Feinn.

I'm sure tomorrow's deadline for a GBP100m bridging loan concentrated their minds.

But a cynic might wonder whether the DUP's sudden agreement to things they found unacceptable earlier this week was in any way related to SF's voting for Morrow's Clause 6 the other day. Surely not