Liz Truss has claimed she would get Sinn Fein and the DUP into government together in Northern Ireland if she is made prime minister. The Tory leadership frontrunner said she would work to fix the Northern Ireland Protocol and restore power sharing in Stormont, which has been in flux since February.
At that time, the DUP withdrew its first minister from the governing executive in protest over the UK’s post-Brexit trade arrangements. All unionists have expressed concern over the Protocol creating what they regard as a border in the Irish Sea.
Ms Truss’s comments come as she and her rival Rishi Sunak are set to travel to Belfast on Wednesday for another leadership hustings with Conservative members. As the two candidates faced questions from Scottish Tories in Perth, Ms Truss was asked whether she could get Northern Ireland’s nationalist and unionist parties together to restore the devolved executive.
