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Sinn Fein leader says UK does not have plan for restoring Northern Ireland's government

FILE PHOTO - Mary Lou McDonald, president of Sinn Fein, holds a news conference to explain the breakdown of talks about the power sharing agreement, at the parliament buildings Stormont in Belfast, Northern Ireland February 15, 2018. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
FILE PHOTO - Mary Lou McDonald, president of Sinn Fein, holds a news conference to explain the breakdown of talks about the power sharing agreement, at the parliament buildings Stormont in Belfast, Northern Ireland February 15, 2018. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

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LONDON (Reuters) - Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald said on Wednesday that the British government does not have a plan for restoring Northern Ireland's power-sharing administration after holding talks with Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May.

"We can only surmise from the meeting with the British prime minister that the government here does not have a plan, doesn't have a viable plan for carving a pathway to the restoration of the institutions," McDonald told reporters after the meeting in London.

"We are disappointed that the government seems wedded to what they are calling a reflection period. We regard the opening up of any political vacuum as extremely dangerous."

(Reporting By Andrew MacAskill)

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