Sinn Fein vice-president Michelle O’Neill also urged the DUP to explain what it wants to re-enter government as the political impasse continues in the region’s devolved institutions. The Assembly and Executive have been in flux for more than a year amid DUP protest action over the Northern Ireland Protocol. There have been some behind-the-scenes discussions around the resurrection of Stormont, but earlier Mr Heaton-Harris said he would not comment on talks with the DUP. “Politics to work, parties to work together, functioning executive, they deserve no less. Chris Heaton-Harris would need to set out a plan for how we’re going to get a restored executive.”

Source: The Herald June 19, 2023 15:43 UTC