“I think [UK Government] will take the power [of welfare] back themselves, I think they will legislate for it”

Stop to draw breath in Northern Ireland politics and someone sneaks out and tinkers with the chain of teetering dominoes. To be fair the Stormont House Agreement dominoes were falling quite smoothly until the Monday morning after Sinn Féin’s ard fheis when their U-turn on welfare reform was announced and the party stuck a hand out and took a few of the black oblongs off the table and stopped the sequence. Arlene Foster – on her first day in her …

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