courage, imagination and perseverance. those qualities brought an imperfect but enduring peace to a place taught to believe no such peace was possible. to all those who lead us to that piece, including those in this hole and there was no longer with us, let us take this moment to say to all of you thank you. including those in this hall. for those of us like me who inherited this extraordinary even intimidating legacy, our challenge today is to fulfil the promise of the work you ve began. to honour your legacy we need to create a more stable devolved government in northern ireland and that means getting the institutions up and running. applause i believe there are two tasks, first to remove the biggest block to the institution returning, and that is why when i came into the office i made it a priority to fix the northern ireland protocol, and we were deeply conscious of the lessons of history as we did so, that is why our aims were of history as we did so, that is why oura
expecting but perhaps rishi sunak would sack dominic raab but that didn t happen. the resignation came first and since then, there is details of what exactly some those details of what exactly some those details trickling through. the behaviour worked on the crowd was present. we will have more in a minute. let s hearfrom dave penman, representing the fta union representing the fta union representing civil servants. it’s representing civil servants. it s not a representing civil servants. it s not a resolution yet, we don t know what the prime minister has actually found. he has allowed dominic raab to resign under his own terms and belittle the process and yet we still can t see the evidence that
police, that two people have been charged with murder after the deaths of four people at that 16th birthday party just ate few days ago. that of four people at that 16th birthday partyjust ate few days ago. that is the latest coming to us from alabama. let s move from that immediately to breaking news here in the uk because in the last few seconds we are hearing that senior civil servants in the fta union are to be balloted for strikes in their dispute over pay. we are seeing a wave of industrial action across so many different sectors here in the uk, doctors, nurses, teachers. senior civil servants are the latest, in their union to ballot members for strikes in their dispute over pay. in the last little while the general secretary has been talking he says he has neverfound himself so utterly at a loss as to why the government would treat members like this. until the last minute, ithink
us, to get stormont up and running again. that is the right thing to do in its own terms and i am convinced it is also the right thing to do for our union. iam it is also the right thing to do for our union. i am a proud it is also the right thing to do for our union. iam a proud unionist, we passionately believe that northern ireland is stronger within the united kingdom and the united kingdom is stronger with northern ireland within it. but we must also build supports beyond those of us who already identify as unionists. to do that we have to show that devolved government within the united kingdom works for northern ireland. applause the fact that the institutions have been down for nine of the last 25 years should be a source of profound concern. over the long term that will not bolster the cause of