Prime Minister

Naomi Long “is simply not fighting the corner for the police” and forcing the Chief Constable to “slip into the political arena far more than he would want to” according to the UUP leader – as the News Letter reveals that Jon Boutcher wrote to the Prime Minister about PSNI funding last week.

Sir Keir Starmer has declined to repeat his previous assertion that he would campaign for Northern Ireland to stay within the UK if a border poll was called – instead saying the role of the government is that of “the honest broker”.