SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood has said that current rounds of negotiations must deliver a return to power sharing at Stormont.
“Government based on degrading and denigrating others, whether they’re from other parties or other communities, must now be at an end. I want to be clear with unionists that the SDLP is not out to destroy your culture, we are not out to marginalise or mistreat you or your community.
“It is now time to secure a positive accommodation between nationalism and unionism that allows us to meet the challenges that we all face.
“And key among those challenges is the threat of Brexit to Northern Ireland. In a few days, Theresa May will trigger Article 50 beginning the biggest constitutional upheaval on these islands since partition. We need a government to deal with that.
“We need a government to defend the will of our people. We need a government to prepare for the most complicated set of negotiations ever entered in to on this continent.
“The public elected us to do the business.
“The SDLP is committed to resolving this and establishing a government,” added the Foyle MLA.
