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  • Karen Bradley comment taken ‘out of context’

    Karen Bradley Image caption Secretary of State Karen Bradley was appointed to the post in January

    The Secretary of State has said that her recent comments regarding Northern Ireland’s voting patterns were “taken out of context”.

    Karen Bradley said that she did not understand that nationalists did not vote for unionist parties during elections.

    The original comment was made during an interview with The House Magazine.

    Mrs Bradley said she did not comprehend that campaigns are generally fought within each part of the community.

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    She told the magazine that it was “a very different world from the world I came from”

    She added: “I didn’t understand things like when elections are fought for example in Northern Ireland – people who are nationalists don’t vote for unionist parties and vice-versa.”

    Mrs Bradley was appointed in January to replace James Brokenshire.

    “I am here doing the job”

    Mrs Bradley defended her comment on Wednesday while taking a walk in Belfast City Centre to see the damage caused by the Primark fire.

    She said: “One thing from the interview was taken out of context.

    “The whole point is that I am here as the Secretary of State doing the job, here on the ground, meeting people, dealing with people, listening to businesses and individuals living in Northern Ireland and really focusing on getting that devolved government back up and running.”

    When asked about possible funding from the Treasury to help revitalise Belfast, Mrs Bradley said she was looking at the best way to deal with the situation and could make no commitments at this stage.

  • ‘Restore Stormont now’ voluntary body urges Karen Bradley

    Stormont Symbol caption There has been no energy-sharing government at Stormont when you consider that January 2017

    The Northern Eire Council for Voluntary Motion (NICVA) has called on Secretary of State Karen Bradley to restore choice-making at Stormont.

    The voluntary and group sector umbrella body mentioned Brexit, training, well being and public finances are at risk.

    There has been no executive seeing that January 2017, while the DUP and Sinn Féin break up in a sour row.

    “Long Run generations is not going to thank us for ducking these problems,” stated NICVA chief government Seamus McAleavey.

    Image caption The secretary of state has in the past said she knows of issues about decision making at Stormont in the absence of ministers Who Is calling the shots at Stormont? NI ‘now not eligible’ for no government document Stormont impasse: Need-to-understand information

    “The challenges we are going through as a society cannot be handled via a palms-off, ‘do nothing’ manner that is determined by short-time period fixes to long-term problems,” he stated.

    Symbol caption NICVA chief government Seamus McAleavey mentioned plans for the longer term cannot be made with out a functioning government

    “it’s NICVA’s belief that just a functioning govt with determination-making ministers can carry an finish to the impasse,” delivered Mr McAleavey.

    “At The Same Time As it continues, we are storing up loads of unmade selections and ever greater problems a good way to be more difficult to handle the longer they cross un-tackled.

    “The secretary of state must act as of late, to restore decision making in Northern Ireland.”

    SDLP leader Colum Eastwood stated legislators have to be embarrassed via the duration of time Stormont has been out of motion and that with Brexit looming the impasse must not go unchallenged.

    “With Brexit our politics has now reached a defining second. we cannot permit a troublesome Brexit to be thrust upon our people with out a functioning Meeting to mitigate its devastating impacts.”

    Ms Bradley was once appointed secretary of state in January after the resignation of James Brokenshire due to well being purposes.