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The Latest Breaking News from Assembly

Dáithí's Law: Family 'taking the fight to London' as Stormont fails to progress organ donation law

After Stormont's failure to act, focus will turn to Westminster

Belfast Live

Father of boy who inspired organ donation law says Westminster is ‘last hope’

Mairtin MacGabhann was speaking after MLAs at Stormont failed to elect a speaker to allow the regulations to be passed by the Assembly.

The Independent UK

Bid to restore Stormont to pass organ donation law ends in failure

The DUP again blocked the attempt to reconvene Northern Ireland’s powersharing legislature.

The Independent UK

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Labour TD suggests 'politicians take drugs' as new Citizens' Assembly is established

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin suggested that while people from across society, including politicians, take drugs, it is typically just people from disadvantaged areas who are criminalised..

Irish Mirror

MLAs to return to Stormont in doomed bid to pass organ donation law

The DUP has said it will continue to block the election of a speaker at Stormont as part of its protest against the NI Protocol.

The Independent UK

Daithi's Law: MLAs recalled to Stormont in bid to progress stalled organ donation legislation

The DUP has made clear it will continue to block the election of a Speaker, meaning no other business can be discussed

Belfast Live

Bid to pass organ donation law at Westminster ‘highly unlikely’ to succeed

The Executive Formation Bill is scheduled to be brought before Westminster later this month.

The Independent UK

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Stormont parties urged to work together to pass regulations for Daithi’s Law

However the DUP has claimed another Assembly recall is about ‘stunt politics’.

The Independent UK

DUP will not drop block on Stormont Assembly sitting over organ donation law

MLAs have been recalled to Stormont next Tuesday in an attempt to elect a Speaker and debate the implementation of the legislation.

The Independent UK

‘Our drug laws are killing people’, says Greens London mayoral candidate as she outlines priorities

Green Party candidate Zoë Garbett is the first challenger to Sadiq Khan to have been revealed so far

Evening Standard

DUP under mounting pressure to drop Assembly veto to let organ donor law pass

The case of six-year-old Daithi MacGabhann, who is waiting a heart transplant, has become the focus of the political debate on the Stormont impasse.

The Independent UK

Analysis: NI secretary move ends embarrassing cycle of meaningless election deadlines

But the extended period to form an Executive raises concerns that efforts to restore power-sharing are being allowed to drift

Belfast Live

Pushing Stormont poll deadline back ‘legislating for further drift’ – Sinn Fein

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris announced on Thursday the Stormont parties have until January 13 2024 to form an executive.

The Independent UK

Brexit: NI election deadline pushed back by 12 months in hope of protocol deal

Northern Ireland secretary says holding an election now won’t help restore powersharing

The Independent UK

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Belfast Live

Deadline to form new Stormont Executive to be extended until 2024

Northern Ireland secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said an Assembly election in the coming weeks would "not be helpful or welcome"

The Independent UK

Heaton-Harris set to outline plans to further delay Assembly election

The DUP collapsed the devolved executive last February in protest at Brexit’s Northern Ireland Protocol.

The Independent UK

Northern Ireland Protocol is lawful, Supreme Court rules

The contentious trading arrangements have created economic barriers on the movement of goods between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The Canberra Times

Govt accused of not consulting with elected body on Voice motion

Andrew Barr moved a motion about the Voice in the Assembly.

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Belfast Live

Ex-Northern Ireland secretary urges sanctions for parties refusing to power share

Lord Hain says any party which refuses to form a power sharing executive should have its funding withheld

The Independent UK

Sanction parties refusing to powershare, urges ex-Northern Ireland secretary

Lord Hain helped negotiate the arrangement in 2007.

Belfast Live

Westminster should consider making more NI decisions in Stormont's absence, study says

Northern Ireland is being governed on a "limited and piecemeal basis" since the collapse of power-sharing, a think tank warned

Los Angeles Times

As Reps. Adam Schiff, Katie Porter launch Senate campaigns, the race to replace them begins

WASHINGTON — Within one day of Rep. Adam Schiff launching his run for Senate, Laura Friedman unveiled her own full-fledged campaign to take his current job — complete with a slick website, a fresh logo and the endorsement of California’s lieutenant governor.

Evening Standard

Tory politician says he would ‘stand up for millennials’ in possible 2024 run against Sadiq Khan

Nick Rogers, a Conservative member of the London Assembly, said he could fight a campaign which addresses the ‘millennial condition’

The Independent UK

DUP reiterates it will not re-enter Stormont until protocol replaced

Tanaiste Micheal Martin is meeting the major Stormont parties today amid continuing impasse over restoring the Assembly.

Dynamite News

Meghalaya Assembly Polls: BJP Announces List Of All 60 Candidates

The Central Election Committee (CEC) of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday announced the list of its candidates for the Meghalaya Assembly elections. See full list on Dynamite News:

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