Heat turned up on Arlene Foster over green boiler scheme

A political inferno around a green boiler scheme is to remove Arlene Foster from her once-seemingly unassailable job as Stormont First Minister. 

Less than six weeks ago, the Democratic Unionist leader looked untouchable at the head of Northern Ireland’s power-sharing administration.

She took over from retiring Peter Robinson early last year in a seamless transition, and defied the pundits to repeat the DUP’s best ever election result in May’s Assembly poll.