Pressure Drop 2
Having tested 70 MLAs and assembly staff, the Chest and Heart Stroke Association referred nearly 10% (I presume that means 6) of them to their GPs. But I can't give you a party political breakdown of who is feeling the strain as that's private medical business.
The pressure seemed fairly high in our Stormont Live studio - the DUP's Peter Weir accused Sinn Fein of reneging on an agreement to leave the policing debate to the Assembly Executive and Review Committee. John O'Dowd retorted that his party wanted progress on the timescale of the handover.
In the Chamber, Peter Robinson said he'd be deeply disappointed if there is no Executive on Thursday, but didn't seem to be turning the screw any more so far as the "serious consequences" of not holding a meeting are concerned.
Gordon Brown is due at Stormont tomorrow (why didn't the nurses stick around to test someone who is really under pressure?). With that in mind the NIO has released another suggesting 58% support for the devolution of justice in the next year. Strangely they didn't (so far as I know) ask anyone where the transfer of powers sat on their list of priorities alongside, say, lower gas and electricity bills.
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