Sinn Fein says Blair must renegotiate policing reforms
Sinn Fein has today warned the British Government that policing reforms will have to be renegotiated if republicans are to back them.
The party has refused to support revised plans for policing in the North, with Sinn Fein assembly member Gerry Kelly branding the proposals as "unworkable".
The rival nationalist SDLP has already given the plan its support.
Speaking at a Republican hunger strike rally in Cork, Mr Kelly said: "If nationalists and republicans are to take the massive historic leap required to sign up to policing, the British Government cannot pull down the shutters on negotiations, unless it doesn’t want a deal".
Sinn Fein objects to the plan’s proposals on the powers of the policing board as well as its failure to require that all members of the new service take a human rights oath.
