Stormont Stand Off
The guest on this weekend's Inside Politics is Sinn Fein's Junior Minister Gerry Kelly. I quiz him about his party's attitude to extending the 1967 Abortion Act here and whether David Cameron, should he get to Number 10, can be a broker between the parties here if he is umbilically linked to the Ulster Unionists.
But the bulk of the interview, somewhat inevitably, concerns the stand off at Stormont. Predictably Gerry Kelly blames the DUP for not delivering on true partnership government. But I found something he didn't say more interesting than what he did say. he told me on Inside Politics that Sinn Fein wouldn't go along with the notion of an Alliance Justice Minister, because to do so would be to "collude with its own exclusion". Now he appears more open to at least talk about the idea, whilst careful not to engage in negotiations over the airwaves..
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