Nicola Sturgeon is set to welcome Sinn Fein deputy leader Michelle O'Neill to Edinburgh today in their first meeting since Northern Ireland Assembly elections earlier this month.
The First Minister will discuss the current cost-of-living crisis gripping the country, the Northern Ireland Protocol and the creation of a government at Stormont.
Since the election the main unionist party, the DUP, has blocked the re-establishment of Stormont's powersharing institutions in protest at the protocol, which has created economic barriers on trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
