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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nick Lester

Northern Ireland ‘underfunding is blackmail bid to restore Stormont’, peers told

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Northern Ireland is being underfunded “by design” in a blackmail bid to restore Stormont, Parliament has been told.

Speaking at Westminster, DUP peer Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown said there was “a nod and wink” that cash would follow if his party was to end its powersharing boycott and “the money tree will magically blossom again”.

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