Mary Lou McDonald: “This meeting needs to happen very, very soon.”

No prime minister has the right to “high-handedly” remove the provision for a unity referendum from the Good Friday Agreement.

We have spent all night here, all night talking to people, listening to people, seeking to reassure people that actually this can be resolved, and it must be.

This is madness. This, in fact, is primitive treatment of any community in the year 2026. It is intolerable, and it will not be tolerated.

You've known since June that a new pay deal had to be struck with the public sector workers. We find ourselves almost four months on, at the eleventh hour, on the brink of this strike action tomorrow. The reason we are here is because of a…