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Hillsborough talks will focus on stabilising Stormont finances – Heaton-Harris

Source: PA Wire

Government talks with Northern Ireland political leaders will focus on stabilising the finances of a returning Stormont Executive, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has said.

Mr Heaton-Harris also said negotiations with the DUP on the post-Brexit Windsor Framework have not concluded, contradicting an earlier claim from Sinn Fein.

Devolved government has not been functioning in Northern Ireland for nearly two years because of the DUP’s ongoing boycott of the institutions in protest at post-Brexit trade agreements.

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