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SINN FEIN MP Conor Murphy said last night that his party wants David Cameron’s “disastrous” Tories out in May but won’t help prop up a Labour government.
Mr Murphy told his party’s “choices for 2015” public meeting in Parliament that Con-Dem cuts to welfare and public services have almost pushed the north’s fragile political process to breaking point.
The party’s senior negotiator also met leading Labour and Tory counterparts to set out Sinn Fein’s opposition to further spending cuts.
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
