Government to issue low-key response to backing of St Andrew’s deal

THE Government is expected to give a low-key response today welcoming the qualified backing of all Northern parties for last month’s St Andrew’s Agreement.

The Democratic Unionist Party will back the principles of the deal brokered in Scotland last month, albeit with of caveats. It follows the conditional ‘yes’ given to the accord by Sinn Féin.

Today is the deadline for all parties to signal that they endorse the agreement that will commit the DUP to power-sharing with Sinn Féin, and Sinn Féin to give its backing to the PSNI.