Northern politicians failed to be brave
No real cards left to play as James Brokenshire will struggle to get anyone to listen to him amid the chaos of Theresa May's minority government
Well it’s hardly a great time to be handing back the levers of Northern Ireland power to the direct rulers in Westminster. The White House apart, was there ever a centre of power that looked more chaotic than the minority Tory government?
The Brexit show is on an incoherent loop of the government’s own making, with neither direction nor energy. A file of allegations relating to sexual harassment, against a variety of MPs, has resulted in the Defence Secretary Michael Fallon resigning and, now, into this carnage, wandersJames Brokenshire with a dysfunctional province under his arm.
