Parliament Buildings at Stormont Image: PA Parliament Buildings at Stormont Image: PA NORTHERN IRELAND SECRETARY Chris Heaton-Harris has restated his intention to call a Stormont Assembly if the executive is not reformed by 28 October.
Appearing at the UK House of Commons’ Northern Ireland Affairs committee today, Heaton-Harris said he had discussed the ongoing paralysis at Stormont with his Cabinet colleagues earlier that day. “If we come back and people choose not to go into positions … actually I think almost immediately the ministers fall away and it gives me a few tough decisions to make which I’d much rather not be taking but I’m fully cognisant of some of the issues that I’ve been reading about in the newspapers, being told about by real folk in real streets on real doorsteps that they’re facing.