NI language legislation ‘to be introduced at Westminster before Stormont poll’

Campaigners call for Irish language legislation (PA)

Legislation around culture, identity and language for Northern Ireland will be introduced at Westminster before the Stormont election, Conor Burns has said.

The Northern Ireland Office minister indicated it would be better passed before the poll, so it does not “become a contentious element of what is already going to be a pretty contentious election campaign”.