Political parties who are willing to form an Executive in Northern Ireland should be allowed to do so in order to kick-start devolution, Alliance Party deputy leader Stephen Farry has said.
The North Down MP was speaking ahead of an adjournment debate he is bringing to the House of Commons on Tuesday, focusing on the operation of the Assembly and Executive. The powersharing institutions at Stormont are currently not operating after the DUP refused to support the nomination of a speaker or a First and deputy First Minister as part of its protest against the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Previously, in 2017, Sinn Fein pulled down the structures by quitting over a row about a botched green energy scheme. The 1998 Good Friday peace agreement saw the creation of a system that requires the biggest political bloc of unionists to share power with the biggest bloc of nationalists in a mandatory coalition.
