'It's about principle': Carla Lockhart demands Michelle O'Neill's removal and denies she quit DUP post to please hardliners

The Upper Bann MP insists the Drumcree row 'cannot be resolved through symbolic or token gestures'. She wants deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly pulled from Stormont, a move that would automatically oust Sinn Féin's First Minister. O'Neill was interviewed by police on Wednesday over an allegedly unlawful Garvaghy Road protest. DUP leader Gavin Robinson says the party agreed to stay in the Executive.

Lockhart admits the DUP cannot remove every Sinn Féin minister under investigation.

Robinson said he was 'sorry' she quit and hopes she won't leave the party.

Asked if she had confidence in Robinson, Lockhart declined to directly endorse him.

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