DUP leader calls Taoiseach’s powersharing remarks ‘unhelpful’

The DUP chief has stated Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s remarks on the Irish authorities’s plan to have a look at options if Stormont will not be introduced again within the autumn had been “unhelpful”. Throughout his go to to Belfast final week Mr Varadkar stated if powersharing will not be restored: “At that time we’ve to start out having conversations about options, about plan B.” Outdoors Stormont fort on Thursday, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson stated: “I feel the Taoiseach’s intervention was unhelpful. We’re not planning for failure. We need to get this proper. And we’ll proceed in our engagement with the federal government to take action.”