British govt urged to push ahead with NI policing reforms

The British government was today urged to call Sinn Féin’s bluff on policing in Northern Ireland with legislation allowing the transfer of justice powers to a future administration at Stormont.

Nationalist SDLP Assembly member Alex Attwood told a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool it was hardly conceivable anywhere in Ireland or Britain that a party could be in government and yet not endorse policing arrangements.