Adams struggles with details of economic policy

GERRY ADAMS’ weakness on economic issues has been exposed again, after the Sinn Féin leader was unable to say how much the party’s proposal for a special tax on high earners would raise.

In 2007, Mr Adams’ poor grasp of economic policy – particularly in a televised debate with other party leaders – was seen as one of the main reasons Sinn Féin performed poorly in that year’s general election.

This weekend, he demonstrated a further example of apparent inattention to policy detail following Sinn Féin’s annual Ard Fheis.