The SDLP has announced they are set to form an Official Opposition at Stormont in a bid to end the current deadlock as the Assembly is set to be recalled on Tuesday.
SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood MP has written to the Speaker of the Assembly to state that his party will form the official opposition immediately and has nominated South Belfast MLA Matthew O'Toole as Leader of the Opposition.
In a statement, Mr Eastwood said: "More than two months after people were promised change in May’s Assembly election we still have no new Executive, no new schemes to address soaring energy bills, no new ideas to get the show back on the road.
