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The cross-community Alliance Party was the first in to meet Mr Sunak at a hotel on the outskirts on Friday morning. Meetings are also scheduled with the DUP, Sinn Fein, the SDLP and Ulster Unionists.A number 10 spokeswoman said the Prime Minister was meeting Northern Ireland parties as part of the "engagement process".
Following his visit to Northern Ireland, Mr Sunak is set to join European leaders in Germany this weekend for the Munich Security Conference and the protocol is likely to feature in discussions on the margins.However, Irish deputy premier Micheal Martin has cautioned that he believes there is a "distance to go yet" before an agreement between the UK and the EU is over the line.
Alliance Party leader Naomi Long has said that UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is in listening mode, and that there is "some heavy lifting still to be done" to secure a deal on the Northern Ireland protocol.
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