UUP 'out of touch with working class'

The Ulster Unionists were today accused of being out of touch with the needs of working class Protestants after it called on the British government to boost loyalist confidence by ending concessions to republicans.

Sinn Féin Assembly member Kathy Stanton criticised the UUP after it also argued Northern Ireland Office Criminal Justice Minister David Hanson should compel community restorative justice groups in nationalist areas to work directly with the police as another confidence building measure.