Executive Formation Act News Today

It will be compulsory for all post-primary schools to teach access to abortion and pregnancy prevention.

The new arrangements also further extends the time parties have to negotiate a return to Stormont.

Northern Ireland’s planning system has been in the spotlight for mostly the wrong reasons over the last few years.

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has set up a consultation group to help deliberate on whether to accept ...

The Northern Ireland Office has denied it is considering any changes to the Good Friday Agreement “and we will not consider Joint Authority” after the Secretary of State suggested there could be changes to Stormont’s governance if the DUP doesn’t back the Windsor Framework.

But the Northern Ireland Secretary said he is a ‘glass half full man’ and is confident the DUP will back the Windsor Framework.

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has suggested there could be changes to Stormont's governance if some in the unionist community do not accept the Windsor Framework deal.

The UK Government will today (Thursday 9 February) introduce legislation to extend the period for Executive formation.

Extension To 'Allow Time And Space For NI Parties To Work Together'

May 13, 2021 The United States are unique among developed countries in that abortion is one of our defining political issues. Yet while the killing of unborn children is a political non-factor in most western countries, this is not the case in Northern Ireland. Before the Parliament of the United Kingdom overrode Northern Ireland’s abortion laws in 2019 in violation of the terms of the union, Northern Irish preborn children possessed equality under the law. Since the United Kingdom’s tyrann...