Unionists 'deliver more accountable government'

The academic selection debate has shown the Democratic Unionists have delivered a more accountable form of devolved government in the North, the party’s leader-in-waiting Peter Robinson has claimed.

The Stormont Finance Minister, who will take over from the Rev Ian Paisley when he stands down as First Minister and DUP leader after next week’s power sharing executive sponsored investment conference in Belfast, said the row over Education Minister Caitriona Ruane’s shake-up of post primary education demonstrated Stormont ministers could no longer ignore the Executive and pursue their own agendas.