Sinn Féin’s Minister of Finance is reinforcing a message the party wants to send to voters North and South — it can be trusted in office
Sinn Féin’s Minister of Finance is reinforcing a message the party wants to send to voters North and South — it can be trusted in officeFirst Minister Michelle O'Neill deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly and Minister of Finance Caoimhe Archibald announcing details of Stormont’s budget. Photograph: David Young/PA’s rising star is Sinn Féin Minister of Finance Caoimhe Archibald, although it is a little early for polls to pick this up, four months into her first executive job.
Archibald led the negotiations and publicised the outcome with technocratic aplomb — a performance that might have been expected from the SNP at its height a decade ago. The deal recommits Stormont to finding £113 million through higher taxes or spending cuts, a relatively small sum that had nevertheless become contentious. Sinn Féin may have kicked that can down the road but it is taking responsibility for the can.
Archibald had presumably been lined up for education: she is a molecular biologist, not an economist, although she also has a postgraduate business qualification. Her party’s economic vision was to be delivered through an industrial strategy at the Department for the Economy. The sudden discontent Sinn Féin is facing in the Republic will hardly be mollified by pointing to the niceties of devolutionary accounting
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