Brexit pass notes: why has row over Northern Ireland protocol resurfaced?

Press and Sinn Fein winners … forming guard of honour .

Michelle O'Neill after casting her vote this morning. "It’s a hugely historic election and people are very in tune to that What we’re asking for people today is come out ... and to vote for a first minister that will stand up for everybody."

Wobble in Whitehall over plans to take unilateral action as DUP leader says he can't return to Stormont until law actually enacted

Liz Truss says again she has had "six months of talks" with the EU implying the UK has exhausted all options. EU source says talks were stalled because of Ukraine invasion on 24 Feb and then for NI election purdah. Talks behind the scenes continued among officials