Sinn Fein has accused Boris Johnson of playing dangerous games with the people of Northern Ireland and shamefully using the nation as a “pawn” in negotiations with the EU.
President Mary Lou McDonald said the British government is helping the DUP block Sinn Fein’s right to form an executive following their election win.
It comes after Sinn Fein became the first nationalist party to win the most seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly in the recent election.
But the devolved administration has not been able to function since Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the leader of the DUP, said his party’s refusal to re-enter a power sharing executive was part of a protest against the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Speaking in Dublin today, ahead of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s visit to Northern Ireland next week, Ms McDonald accused the British government of trying to “frustrate the democratic will of the people”.
She said: “There has to be a respect for people’s votes and it has to be…
