Direct Rule in action: “In the light of the ongoing absence of an Executive…”
Northern Ireland Assembly Legislative Consent Motions, required by the UK Parliament to legislate on devolved matters, may have been devalued by the absence of a protest by the then NI Assembly Speaker in March 2015, but the UK Government could at least pretend that one had been passed at that time. Yesterday there was no such pretence by Steve Brine (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health). Welcome to Direct Rule… My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health (Lord O’Shaughnessy) …