Gerry Adams: we’ll give Foster time to consider stepping down

Sinn Féin president has intervened in the major political crisis in the North

DUP leader Arlene Foster

Gerry Adams has said that the DUP leader Arlene Foster should reconsider Sinn Féin’s call for her to stand aside as the North’s First Minister over the Christmas break.

The Sinn Féin president has intervened in the major political crisis in the North, over claims of widespread abuse of a green energy scheme that Foster set up when she was enterprise minister.

However, the prospect of the immediate collapse of power-sharing between the ...