Labour must ‘shift the dial’ on Stormont reform if elected, says Alliance leader

Labour must “shift the dial” on reforming Stormont’s devolved structures if it wins the UK general election, the leader of the Alliance Party has said.

Naomi Long warned that the powersharing institutions in Belfast remain as fragile now as they were just prior to their last collapse, as she expressed concern that another implosion could herald the end of devolution in Northern Ireland.

She claimed the DUP’s current “backpedalling” on its endorsement of the Government deal on post-Brexit trading barriers, which led to the restoration of devolution in February, could place fresh question marks over Stormont’s stability.

Ms Long’s cross-community party has long campaigned for reform to remove the veto power to collapse the institutions held by the biggest unionist and nationalist parties.

Since 2017, both Sinn Féin and the DUP have pulled the plug on powersharing, meaning Northern Ireland has been without a devolved government for five of the last seven…

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