DUP Reiterates Protocol Demands Amid Northern Ireland Talks
- U.K. minister urges parties to form power-sharing government
- DUP reiterates Brexit demands as condition to join executive
Jeffrey Donaldson
Photographer: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party said it won’t join a new government with the nationalists Sinn Fein until the U.K. and European Union make changes to trading arrangements in their Brexit deal.
The announcement by DUP Leader Jeffrey Donaldson effectively stymies the immediate formation of a new executive in the wake of elections last week which saw nationalists Sinn Fein become the largest party for the first time. Under the power-sharing model, the first minister and deputy first minister have equal powers and one cannot be in place without the other. Effectively, one must be a unionist and the other a nationalist.