The Stormont Assembly will be recalled later for another seemingly doomed bid to restore powersharing in Northern Ireland
Image: PA Images THE STORMONT ASSEMBLY will be recalled later for another seemingly doomed bid to restore powersharing in Northern Ireland.
Several previous attempts to reconstitute the Assembly have already failed as the DUP has not supported the election of a speaker at the outset of the sittings.The DUP is again set to block the election of a speaker today. Negotiations between the UK Government and the EU to resolve differences over the protocol are continuing.
The lack of clarity on when the Treasury-funded payments will be made has become the focus of intense political dispute amid the ongoing powersharing vacuum. While consumers in the rest of the UK have already begun to receive support payments, there has been no decision about how and when they will be made in Northern Ireland.
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