SDLP leader told party conference that DUP must ‘get back to work or get out of the way’
Mr Eastwood said that, despite the “overwhelming” majority in favour of the framework in the UK parliament, the DUP was “still digging their heels in” and the “much deeper reality” was that “25 years on, the truth is that the DUP still haven’t come to terms with the Good Friday Agreement.”
A number of high-profile DUP politicians have already spoken out against the framework, and the DUP leader, Jeffrey Donaldson, has described it as “insufficient” and a “sticking plaster.” “If we are unable to secure lasting reform of the institutions then the only alternative is a new settlement that retains power with the Irish and British traditions that share this island.
But he said the party had been “written off” many times before and “the adversity we face now is nothing compared to the adversity this party shouldered in the past.”
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