Sinn Féin accuses UK government of ‘Tory petulance’ claiming its leader Mary Lou McDonald had been excluded from the talks

James Cleverly’s first round-table talks with Northern Ireland party leaders over Brexit were left in disarray after both Sinn Féin and the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour party refused to attend.

Sinn Féin accused the UK government of “Tory petulance” claiming its leader Mary Lou McDonald, who had travelled up from Dublin for the meeting, had been “excluded” from the talks.

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