Michael Cousins Acting Managing Editor

Good morning

In the news:

* Complaints about long queues at Belfast International Airport.

* The royal family have wished the Queen a happy 96th birthday and described the monarch as an “inspiration to so many across the UK”.

* The DUP will introduce a devolved windfall tax on energy firms if and when they go back into government at Stormont, the party announced yesterday.

* An Ulster Unionist Assembly election candidate has defended his decision to speak at an anti-NI Protocol rally in Saintfield next Friday

Opinion:

* Morning View: Comments by Jacob Rees-Mogg on the Northern Ireland Protocol reveal yet another change of tone in London over the internal UK trade border

* Letters: Wishing my right wing friend Jim Wells a happy retirement. 

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