DUP denies being traitors over NI power-sharing impasse, calls critics idiots
• DUP's Edwin Poots denied party are "traitors" for not yet reaching a deal to restore NI power-sharing
• DUP "working extremely hard" to resolve deadlock over post-Brexit trade rules, says those calling them traitors are "idiots"
• DUP under pressure from unionist rivals not to compromise demands to change NI Protocol
• Poots wouldn't be drawn on whether DUP's 7 tests for a deal must all be met before returning to power-sharing
• UK government offered £3.3bn financial package for NI dependent on Stormont restoration, talks said to have "effectively concluded"