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BBC Radio Ulster said Paul Givan has written his resignation letter, which is expected to be made public later © Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters
Northern Ireland’s first minister was reportedly poised to tender his resignation amid an intensifying row over checks on food and agricultural goods entering the region from Great Britain under post-Brexit trading rules.
BBC Radio Ulster reported today that Paul Givan of the Democratic Unionist party, who heads the power-sharing executive, had written his resignation letter and it was expected to be made public later by DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson. It was not immediately clear if the resignation would take immediate effect.
There was no immediate confirmation from the DUP, but the possibility of its pulling out of the Stormont executive, in which it rules alongside the nationalist Sinn Féin party, has been flagged in recent days by Donaldson.
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