Now the prime minister has agreed the so-called Windsor Framework with the EU, it will be down to him to convince the DUP of its merits, as one senior Tory warns 'we will go where they go'.
"My party will want to study the detail of what has been published," he added, saying it would be compared to the party's seven tests for an acceptable agreement.
But one senior Tory Leaver, Sir Edward Leigh, said unless the deal got the NI Assembly up and running again,"it is pretty futile - indeed it might be downright dangerous". Mr Johnson has yet to make his thoughts known, with a source close to him saying for now he"continues to study and reflect on the government's proposals".
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