Michelle O'Neill asks SDLP to step aside in two constituencies to maximise SF vote - without reciprocal move

Sinn Féin has called on the SDLP to stand aside in two constituencies in the North to maximise the "anti-Brexit vote", but has not offered a reciprocal move.

Michelle O'Neill asks SDLP to step aside in two constituencies to maximise SF vote - without reciprocal move

Sinn Féin has called on the SDLP to stand aside in two constituencies in the North to maximise the "anti-Brexit vote", but has not offered a reciprocal move.

Michelle O'Neill, the party's Stormont leader, urged SDLP leader Colum Eastwood to "do the right thing" and not field candidates in Fermanagh and South Tyrone and North Belfast.

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