DUP says Reid's decision was 'constitutionally outrageous'
A lawyer acting for the DUP has described Northern Secretary John Reid’s decision to delay Assembly elections for 18 months as "constitutionally outrageous".
Dr Reid has accepted that he is under an obligation to call fresh elections because a First Minister was not elected before last Saturday’s deadline, but he has angered the DUP by calling those elections for May 2003, when a new election is due anyway.
