Mary Lou McDonald says her exclusion from protocol meeting was 'a bad decision'

Mary Lou McDonald rejected claims from the British government that there was an issue around the 'protocol' of meeting the Sinn Féin leader.

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said she has written to the British prime minister following a decision to exclude her from a Brexit meeting with foreign secretary James Cleverly.

The party dramatically withdrew from roundtable talks with Mr Cleverly after claiming Ms McDonald was excluded from attending the talks on the Northern Ireland Protocol.