SDLP warns of DUP 'free run at agreement'

Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley will get a free run at Westminster to rewrite the Good Friday Agreement if Sinn Féin gets the election result it is claiming to expect, a nationalist rival claimed today.

SDLP leader Mark Durkan, who was campaigning in Derry today with former party leader John Hume, dismissed Sinn Féin claims that it could become the largest party in the North in terms of the popular vote in the Westminster election as an attempt by their party and the DUP to inflate each other’s votes.