SF demands clarification of SDLP policy on inclusion
Sinn Féin has demanded that the SDLP clarify its position on inclusive politics after two senior party members appeared to support the expulsion of republicans from the peace process.
This weekend, SDLP deputy leader Alasdair McDonnell was quoted as saying that his party was considering co-operating with unionist demands for Sinn Féin's exclusion because of the IRA's alleged involvement in last month's Belfast bank heist.
SDLP MP for South Down, Eddie McGrady, also said the parameters of inclusion could not be stretched indefinitely.
The SDLP has previously resisted all unionist demands for Sinn Féin to be excluded from politics, saying the involvement of all sides was the only way forward for the North.
Sinn Féin chairman Mitchel McLaughin has now accused the party of breathing life into the failed unionist agenda of discrimination.
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