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Swann refuses to rule out resigning if budget is not changed

Source: PA Media

Stormont’s Health Minister Robin Swann has refused to rule out resigning if a budget agreed by the powersharing Executive is passed in its current form.

The Ulster Unionist minister has called on the Stormont Assembly to “strategically review” and change the draft budget, which he has warned could devastate already strained health services in Northern Ireland.

Mr Swann broke ranks as the only member of the four-party powersharing administration to

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