Weary unionists fear Johnson’s Brexit deal will strike at heart of their identity

In Lisburn, once the home of the Ulster Defence Regiment, there was confusion about the DUP's role in a dramatic week

Lisburn's Britishness is etched in stone and bronze, its town centre dotted with plaques, monuments and statues to those who built the empire and served the United Kingdom.

General John Nicholson towers over Market Square, cutlass in one hand, pistol in the other, the plinth declaring he fell mortally wounded "in the hour of victory" during the 1857 Indian mutiny.