DUP ministers will 'renominate and resign' to keep posts away from nationalists

Democratic Unionist ministers who quit the North's powersharing government are set to be renominated next week only to resign again immediately in a move designed to keep the posts away from nationalists, party leader Peter Robinson has said.

Under the rules of Stormont's mandatory coalition Executive, if a minister is not renominated within seven days the position is reallocated to another party.