After 23 months of impasse, Northern Ireland has a government again.
Following months of negotiations, an agreement between the UK government and the Democratic Unionist Party, the second-largest party in the Northern Ireland assembly, and whose support is needed for a government to take office, was signed off by UK MPs on Thursday (1 February).
The DUP, the main pro-UK party in Northern Ireland, has now formally asked the speaker to appoint a first minister who will form a gove...
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