Sir Jeffrey Donaldson (J_Donaldson_MP) will address his first Democratic Unionist Party conference as party leader when members meet in Belfast later.
He is expected to tell the conference that "unionism should have no barriers to entry beyond a belief that Northern Ireland is best served as a part of the UK".
He will also say that coalition should include "those whose support for the union is based on a cultural, social and historic affinity with Great Britain", as well as "those whose support is grounded more in reason and realism and what is best for them and their families". Following the recent assembly election in May, the party said its stance had not changed and that it would remain out of the institutions until "action" is taken on the protocol., which set out post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland.
Then there is the looming spectre of another assembly election if the DUP refuses to reform an executive within the next three weeks.
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