Why is the Democratic Unionist Party tearing itself apart?

In Northern Ireland, Unionism has been in an unhappy place since the turn of the year, when the Northern Ireland protocol, the part of the the Brexit deal that creates a customs border in the Irish Sea, was implemented. Now Unionism's main party, the Democratic Unionist Party, is in political turmoil after a change in leadership left many of its membership angry and alienated. With an election less than a year away, and with a real possibility of Sinn Féin becoming the largest party at that election, can the DUP under new leader Edwin Poots come together to save the Union - or do its problems run too deep? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.