Committee recommends ‘supermajority’ speaker election to restore Stormont

Stormont rules should be urgently reformed so that a speaker can be elected by a two-thirds majority of MLAs, a Westminster committee has recommended.

The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee has also proposed that the same threshold should be used to elect first and deputy first ministers.

As part of a raft of proposals which the committee said would assist in restoring and stabilising the powersharing institutions, it also recommended