of a power sharing coalition until the brexit trade border with the rest of the uk is removed. the legal deadline for the formation of a devolved government is next friday and the current northern ireland secretary chris heaton harris has said if there is no breakthrough lapped by them and that seems unlikely, he will be calling another election, just seven months after northern ireland last went to the polls. 0f northern ireland last went to the polls. of course events in london have added a huge great deal of uncertainty, for example will there be another cabinet reshuffle next week, could there be a general change of tack on the government s part? for now the parties are assuming they ll be going back to the voters on probably the 15th of december but stormont feels like it s on an even greater state of limbo. bill it s on an even greater state of limbo. ., , ., , limbo. all of the party leaders here in scotland limbo. all of the party leaders here in scotland say limbo. all o
to go back a little bit, northern ireland has not had a fully functioning devolved government since february and the democratic unionist party says it will continue to block the formation of a power sharing coalition until the brexit trade border with the rest of the uk is removed. an election is due to be called here next friday by the current northern ireland secretary, chris heaton harris, and he says it will definitely happen by next friday, who will be prime minister and the northern ireland secretary? he will be calling another election seven months after northern ireland went to the polls. events in london have added a huge degree of uncertainty. for now the parties assume they will be going back to the voters on the 15th of december but stormont feels like it s an even
for nearly 20 years. there is a conservative club round the corner, but recent events appear to have damaged at least some of the support around here. you have been a conservative party voter? i have in the past, yes, and i wouldn t vote conservative now because i don t feel we can trust them. i feel a whole fiasco with boris and followed with the whole fiasco now with liz truss, i don t feel i can support them any more. ifeel we need a change. like a lot of people, i m put off by what s going on. they haven t covered themselves in glory. you are put off voting for them at the next general election? whenever that might be? i m afraid so at the moment, yes. is thoughts turn to the next prime minister, one familiar name. bring back boris. is that what you would like to see? well, he did a good job on brexit. i think somebody over there agrees with me so yes, bring back boris. personally, iwould bring back boris that s my answer. we hear he may be throwing his hat into the ring, why
of a stormont executive until the brexit trade border with the rest of the uk is scrapped. there s no sign of that happening any time soon. next friday the 20th of october is the latest potential end point for the tory leadership contest. it s also the legal deadline for a devolved government to be formed here. as things stand the northern ireland secretary chris heaton harris is set on that day to call a new election to the devolved assembly, probably to take place on the 15th of december, seven months after voters last went to the polls. even after today s events, the stormont parties think it s still more likely than not that that fresh assembly election will be called at the end of next week. the only certainty though is there s a lot more uncertainty. the response of most politicians in wales has been scathing. the first minister, labour s mark drakeford, condemning what he called the complete and utter failure of the uk government and condemning us, he said, to all having to pay
automatically apply in wales and scotland automatically apply in wales and scotland but will in northern ireland scotland but will in northern ireland because property prices in this part ireland because property prices in this part tend to be lower than the uk average, it won t have much effect uk average, it won t have much effect. relatively few people here pay the effect. relatively few people here pay the upper rate of tax. some parts pay the upper rate of tax. some parts of pay the upper rate of tax. some parts of the chancellor s plans would parts of the chancellor s plans would involve the devolved governments, and that is complicated by the governments, and that is complicated by the fact governments, and that is complicated by the fact that northern ireland currently by the fact that northern ireland currently doesn t have one. the democratic unionist party is blocking democratic unionist party is blocking the power sharing assembly at stormont from meeti