James Brokenshire On Northern Ireland Power Sharing Collapse

CLEAN: Northern Ireland will go to the polls in early March, despite last minute attempts by the Prime Minister to prevent the need for an election. Theresa May spoke to Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness and DUP leader Arlene Foster, to try to persuade them to find a solution before the 5pm deadline. But more than a decade of power sharing has ended, so Northern Ireland is now without a formal voice in the run-up to Brexit negotiations. Grab from press statement by James Brokenshire, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announcing snap election to be held 2nd March, 2016.