MP Claire Hanna declares intention to seek SDLP leadership after Eastwood resignation
Hanna said the party needs to more actively engage voters, including those who have grown up outside the nationalist tradition.
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Hanna said the party needs to more actively engage voters, including those who have grown up outside the nationalist tradition.
Matthew O’Toole said Claire Hanna is the ‘best person’ for the role after the resignation of Colum Eastwood yesterday.
The regulations will need to be approved by the House of Lords before they can become law.
The health service was the main concern among people in Banbridge and Newry in Co Down.
The DUP has insisted it will not end its blockade until it secures legislative assurances on Northern Ireland’s trading position within the UK.
Sinn Féin’s vice president said a pragmatic approach was required by all political parties to ‘get down to business’.
The DUP has been blocking powersharing for more than a year in protest at the internal UK trade barriers created by Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol.
A deadline for forming a new powersharing executive has lapsed, with an election due in December.