Unionists 'will not throw SF a lifeline'

Unionists are not going to throw Sinn Féin a lifeline in the current stand-off over support for policing, a senior MP in the Rev Ian Paisley’s party claimed today.

As Sinn Féin’s 56-member Executive gathered in Dublin to review their plan for a special party conference this month to consider whether or not they should support the police in Northern Ireland, Democratic Unionist MP the Rev William McCrea said republicans needed to deliver.