NI Protocol here to stay, O’Neill says as she calls for formation of Executive

Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill speaking after a visit to the Ulster Hospital, Belfast (Liam McBurney/PA)

The Northern Ireland Protocol is “here to stay”, Sinn Féin vice president Michelle O’Neill has insisted as she again called on the DUP to join an Executive at Stormont.

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has pressed the British government for “decisive action” over the post-Brexit treaty before he will nominate ministers for a new Stormont Executive.