DUP urges nationalists to accept new proposals

The Democratic Unionist Party has called on nationalists in the North to support its proposals on restoring devolution and the future of North-South relations.

Both Sinn Féin and the SDLP have already rejected the proposals.

However, Jim McAllister, the DUP’s candidate in the upcoming European election, claimed the existing system set up under the Good Friday Agreement was dead now that the DUP was in the ascendancy.

He said his party would veto any move to restore the Assembly and Executive in their previous forms unless the IRA disbanded and decommissioned and it would be a grave miscalculation for nationalists to think they could secure more than the DUP was offering.