We will never share power with Sinn Féin, says Paisley

IAN Paisley insisted yesterday there was “no way” his hardline Democratic Unionist Party would ever sit in government with Sinn Féin.

Mr Paisley said Sinn Féin was still “inextricably tied up” with paramilitarism. He also urged British Prime Minister Tony Blair not to let the party into government.

Speaking after talks with Mr Blair and Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy at Downing Street, Mr Paisley said: “There will never be any conditions when we will sit in government with any body of people, loyalist or nationalist, who have an army, and that army is being used against democracy.”