PM says amendment is being pulled after Tory Northern Ireland affairs committee chair spoke out against it

The government has abandoned plans to introduce a law that would have allowed the leader of the Democratic Unionist party to potentially “double-job” in the Stormont assembly while remaining a Westminster MP.

Ahead of a debate on the legislation in the Lords on Wednesday afternoon, Boris Johnson told the House of Commons that an amendment enabling dual mandates was being withdrawn.

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