DUP’s Foster upbeat as Boris rejects deal that would split the UK

John Goulty: I hope she’s right.

Dermot Rodgers: That’s what he says today. Tomorrow is a whole new day to say something different.

Frank Smyth: He showed Arlene the Magic Money Tree for bridges.

Ronnie Matthews: Upbeat? After meeting a PM who has lost every single vote? His party has no majority, even with DUP support. Maybe it’s now time to sit down, take a deep breath and think again.

Cormac Harrington: If Boris says no, the only thing we can be sure of is that he means yes.

Lewis Montgomery: And we all know how his word is his bond, don’t we?

Brigid Sloan: Didn’t look upbeat coming out of the meeting. World’s Press waiting on them coming out and they walk right past them.

Gerry McDermott: Very dubious. There is no doubt the backstop will be tinkered with. The DUP will be under huge pressure to accept whatever that is.

Arlene McDonald: He told her what she wants to hear. Politicians are good at that.

Liam Curran: He’s done with her. Is that a bus coming? Alex Jackson: She must have got a cash injection.

Jimmy Johnston: And she believed him? Ha ha ha.

John Price: If Boris has rejected it, it is definitely going to happen.

JoAnne McAlister: If Johnson is against the NI-only backstop, why did he vote for it?

Neal Dorman: More bluff.

Peter O’Reilly: Her “nodeal” hard Brexit is safe in Boris’s hands.

Stephen Hylands: Definitely another DUP U-turn on its way if this is anything to go by.

Keven Wickham: Upbeat after meeting a man who has no government? I wouldn’t be.

Alan Simpson: Good on you, Arlene. And to hell with Leo and his EU statelet. They are goosed without us.