Within Northern Ireland • The fact of a EU-UK agreement has been broadly welcomed in NI by businesses and parties but notably there has been widespread caution about championing or endorsing the Windsor Framework itself. shows that the o The latest polling from the Post-Brexit Governance NI project Windsor Framework has produced a slight but significant ‘warming’ to the Protocol (see Fig. 2). o The movement in support has come predominantly from among those who are ‘slightly unionist’, including UUP supporters. o UK-EU relations and British-Irish relations are seen in a more positive light, but concerns remain about the Protocol/WF impact on political stability. o Perhaps relatedly, the NI Life and Times Survey (2022) also showed for the first time that more people in NI expect a united Ireland to exist (45%) than expect the United Kingdom to exist (38%) in 20 years’ time. o The same survey also showed low levels of trust in the NI Executive and decreasing support for devolution within the UK as being the long-term policy for NI. 35% of respondents want to see that, compared...