Paisley: SF inclusion unacceptable

Ian Paisley has said he would not be willing to accept the title of First Minister in an administration which included Sinn Féin members or to sit down and negotiate with Sinn Féin while the IRA retained its weapons.

He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I don’t accept the principle that we must sit down with armed terrorists who have enough weapons in their possession to blow up the whole of Northern Ireland.