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Michelle O'Neill says DUP has blocked her from PM meeting in Glasgow
Michelle O'Neill described the move as "reckless and irresponsible" and meant people in Northern Ireland "will not be represented"
Northern Ireland's First Minister Michelle O'Neill has said Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly has "blocked" them from attending an economic summit involving Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
The Sinn Féin vice-president and Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) minister were both invited to attend the National Economic Council in Glasgow on Friday alongside other devolved leaders.
The move follows unionist anger over Sinn Féin's involvement in protests which prevented a contentious Orange Order march in Portadown from passing along the mainly nationalist Garvaghy Road.
Later the DUP leader Gavin Robinson confirmed that Little-Pengelly will not participate in joint engagements with O'Neill.
"There will be no permission granted for the First Minister to operate on a solo basis either," he said.
"Her complaints today that she's frustrated from engaging with the British Prime Minister within the sovereign United Kingdom will so be it because her law breaking must have consequences," he added.
Earlier O'Neill described the move to block the meeting as "reckless and irresponsible" and meant people in Northern Ireland "will not be represented".
"This is a reactive stunt, driven by the DUP's own internal pressures and electoral problems," she said in a statement posted online.
Little-Pengelly said the concerns arising from O'Neill's conduct and the "anger and hurt felt by many people across Northern Ireland, cannot simply be ignored or minimised".