Robinson insists DUP will not speak to SF

DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson has insisted that his party will not change its policy of refusing to speak to Sinn Féin while the IRA continued to exist.

In a speech last night, Mr Robinson said last November’s election had radically and irreversibly changed politics in the North. He said unionism was now under new management and likened the Ulster Unionist Party to Nazi collaborators in France during the Second World War.