Call to suspend Sinn Féin from talks

The British government faced unionist demands tonight that Sinn Féin should be excluded from talks to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly.

As Police Service of Northern Ireland Chief Constable Hugh Orde met with the British government to discuss an alleged breach of the IRA ceasefire, the Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionists and David Trimble’s Ulster Unionist insisted Sinn Féin must be removed from the review of the Good Friday Agreement at Stormont.