Alex Kane

While the headlines this week have been dominated by talks, the paramilitary assessment panel and Jamie Bryson, something very important slipped in under the radar: the first reading of John McCallister’s Assembly and Executive Reform (Assembly Opposition) Bill. And this is important, because it is the first time that the Assembly will be able to consider and vote on substantive proposals to “make the Executive less divided and more efficient while, at the same time, introducing a formal Opposition to the Assembly.” In March 2012, when McCallister was fighting Mike Nesbitt[...]