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Alliance Party calls for UK Government to step in over Stormont paralysis

Source: PA Wire

The UK Government has been urged to step in over the ongoing political paralysis at Stormont.

Devolved government in Northern Ireland has been effectively collapsed for almost two years amid DUP protest action over post-Brexit trading arrangements.

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said his party will not re-enter Stormont until unionist concerns over the Windsor Framework are addressed.

Secretary of State convened multi-party talks at Hillsborough Castle last

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