The lives of people in Northern Ireland are being made harder by not having a functioning powersharing Executive at Stormont, Alliance Party leader Naomi Long has said.
She delivered a sharp criticism of DUP tactics as she accused the party of having no solutions to longstanding issues and instead using Stormont as leverage to force the UK Government to scrap the Northern Ireland Protocol, which she said "no-one is losing sleep over".
In an interview with the PA news agency ahead of Thursday's Assembly elections, Mrs Long also spoke about the need to reform Stormont, saying it is not representative of many people who no longer see themselves solely as unionist or nationalist.
