DUP warns against postponing elections

It would be an outrage if the British government were to pull at the last minute plans for an Assembly election in Northern Ireland, a Democratic Unionist candidate claimed today.

As the midnight deadline for the dissolution of the Northern Ireland Assembly approached, Alex Easton argued that it would be “an assault on democracy” if Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy were to postpone the vote for a second time because of the failure to achieve a breakthrough in the peace process.