Its taken 13 months now for the two main parties in Northern Ireland to fail to form a government. At least until today they were working on trying to create one. Remember, the Prime Minister went to belfast on monday with the irish taiseach, leo varadker, in the hope a deal was about to be born. But this afternoon, the talks collapsed. Sinn fein and the dup blame each other. The Sticking Point was an argument over official recognition of the Irish Language. Now, lets be clear, that part of the uk is ungoverned right now and that it happens to be the same part that is at the most fraught border of the whole brexit argument is one massive headache for the British Government. And making it all the more difficult is the fact that the uk government is sustained in parliament by the dup. Two questions how did we get here, and what happens now . Heres matthew thompson. A year is a long time in politics, and seldom in the 13 months that storm has stood empty has the prospect for devolved gove
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