SF 'has stronger claim on ministerial seat than PUP'

Northern Secretary Peter Hain has said Sinn Féin is in a stronger position than the PUP to demand seats in any new power-sharing Executive at Stormont.

Mr Hain was responding to the furore surrounding PUP leader David Irvine's decision to join the UUP's Assembly group in order to ensure a unionist majority of any Executive that might be formed.