DUP MP accuses government of 'Stalinist purge' over Windsor Framework

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DUP MP accuses government of 'Stalinist purge' over Windsor Framework
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'They simply weren't going to brook any dissent, so they got rid of the dissenters.'

DUP MP Sammy Wilson has accused the UK Government of a "Stalinist purge" of a parliamentary committee scrutinising legislation linked to the Windsor Framework deal.

Read more:Stormont civil servants criticised for 'ludicrous' use of ministerial cars in absence of NI Executive“There's a process for appointing members to a committee, the process of selection," he told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme. The DUP withdrew from Stormont power-sharing in protest against the protocol and has continued to raise concerns over the framework.

Each week, our Political Reporter Brendan Hughes pulls together some of the biggest and most important matters from Belfast and Northern Ireland that we think you’d be interested in reading. He said: "I don't think the government has handled the process around this very well - both in terms of communicating what this is about and also around the committee - but I wouldn’t go entirely overboard about this.

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