“It’s not going to go anywhere. Everybody knows it’s not going to go anywhere. So we question the point of doing this.'
Political party leaders at Stormont would be better off meeting privately to resolve differences over the Northern Ireland Protocol than staging another failed attempt to elect an Assembly speaker, an Ulster Unionist MLA has said.
The Stormont institutions have been in flux since February when the DUP withdrew its first minister from the devolved executive, calling for the UK Government to act on the post-Brexit protocol. Without a speaker, no further Assembly business can be done, including the nomination of new first and deputy first ministers.
He said: “It’s not going to go anywhere. Everybody knows it’s not going to go anywhere. So we question the point of doing this. “What we are dealing with are challenges but they’re nothing like what David Trimble had to overcome 25 years ago.” He said: “Since the Assembly last met, the crisis facing families and households across Northern Ireland has deepened.
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