The DUP leader Arlene Foster has backed a call by Baroness Nuala O’Loan for the restoration of the Northern Ireland Assembly to stop an extreme abortion measure from becoming law.
Baroness O’Loan has written a letter to the Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith, referring to a petition signed by 23,000 people and urging him to recall the assembly before the change to abortion laws comes in next week.
The peer described the situation in her letter as “unprecedented”.
Ms Foster said the DUP’s assembly team met on Monday and agreed to seek a recall of the assembly.
“Our MLAs will return to the chamber without pre-condition. There are serious matters emanating from the NI (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019 which should be decisions made in Stormont. We urge other MLAs who oppose the extreme liberalisation of our abortion law, to step outside any party shackles and join us in recalling the assembly,” she said.
“It’s time to get Northern Ireland moving again.”
