DUP in move to 'freeze out' Sinn Féin

The Democratic Unionists embarked today on a fresh effort to persuade other Northern Ireland parties to freeze Sinn Féin out of a future devolved government.

The Rev Ian Paisley’s party arranged a lunchtime meeting with the nationalist SDLP and the cross community Alliance Party at Stormont as pressure mounted for Sinn Féin’s expulsion from the review of the Good Friday Agreement.