

However, the poll, which was conducted from March 3 to 14, showed that some unionists are in favour of the Windsor Framework.

The party’s eight MPs had said they would vote against the deal and demand further changes to the agreement, which Mr Sunak ruled out. It has maintained a year-long boycott of Stormont, which it has said will only end if the new deal meets its conditions. The DUP pulled out of the Northern Ireland Assembly over the Irish Sea border, which it says drives a wedge between the province and the rest of the UK.
