Trimble accused of bid to drive SF out

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble was accused today of pursuing a policy aimed at driving Sinn Fein out of the Stormont power-sharing government.

In a hard-hitting attack on the Northern Ireland First Minister ahead of his meeting with the Prime Minister Tony Blair, Sinn Fein Assembly member Gerry Kelly claimed the UUP leader wanted to strip Martin McGuinness and Bairbre de Brun of their ministries.