Britain to push back N.Ireland election deadline to March – source

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  1. Filed 9 November 2022 10:46 GMT, updated 11:04 GMT.

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    >Britain will announce on Wednesday it intends to push back a deadline to hold a new election in Northern Ireland by six weeks to early March, with the option of extending it by a further six weeks, a source briefed on the plan said.

    >[Heaton-Harris] said on Friday he would not call another election before the end of this year and would outline in parliament on Wednesday how he intended to proceed beyond that.

    >The source told Reuters [that] Heaton-Harris would also announce plans to impose a budget on Northern Ireland after caretaker ministers were forced to step down last month.

    >^Reporting ^by ^Amanda ^Ferguson, ^writing ^by ^Padraic ^Halpin, ^editing ^by ^Elizabeth ^Piper

    Reuters

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