British govt warned against easing pressure on SF

The British government was tonight warned any attempt to ease pressure on Sinn Féin over the transfer of policing and justice powers will end in failure.

As behind-the-scenes efforts continued to persuade Sinn Féin to call a meeting of its national executive to debate whether to have a special conference on policing, Democratic Unionist MP Nigel Dodds claimed Gerry Adams’s party was boxed into a corner on the issue.