Blair and Trimble to meet

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble was today meeting Prime Minister Tony Blair for the first time since republicans attempted to clarify a confidential IRA statement on the future of the peace process.

As the Government remained under pressure to confirm that assembly elections would take place in Northern Ireland as planned on May 29, the Upper Bann MP was expected to discuss Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams’s weekend speech aimed at clarifying the IRA position on the future direction of the peace process.