Arlene Foster defends refusal to name adviser linked to botched energy scheme

Arlene Foster has defended not naming a key party adviser at the centre of claims levelled by a top civil servant when she made an Assembly statement about Stormont's botched energy scheme.

The Democratic Unionist leader said she was aware of Dr Andrew McCormick's allegation about DUP adviser Dr Andrew Crawford when she took to her feet in Parliament Buildings but insisted it would not have been right to name him because there was no firm evidence to confirm it.