Northern Ireland Stormont stalemate: When will we next go to the polls?

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Northern Ireland Stormont stalemate: When will we next go to the polls?🗳🗳

Efforts to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly have already failed on five separate occasions at Stormont.He could opt to delay a poll, as he has done previously via legislation at Westminster.The DUP collapsed the executive in February and has blocked it from forming since May's assembly election

It put in place two new dates: initially 8 December, with the option of a six-week extension until 19 January. That seems an unlikely prospect, not least because it would fall just three days after the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. There has in recent weeks been speculation that things are moving in the right direction, amid a UK-EU deal signedMr Heaton-Harris has also been involved in the latest rounds of discussions with Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and EU negotiator Maroš Šefčovič.

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