As Mick noted here, the suggestion that other parties would be brought into some kind of process involving discussions about various matters was made by the new Northern Ireland First Minister, the DUP’s Peter Robinson, after that Downing Street meeting. Yesterday two of those leaders pointed out they hadn’t heard anything. But at his first appearance at questions to the First Minister, Peter Robinson was asked by the UUP deputy leader Danny Kennedy what plans he had to convene a meeting of those party leaders.
And on BBC NI’s StormontLive the SDLP leader, Mark Durkan, gave his reaction to the letter from the DUP leader.
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