Sinn Féin has held talks with the Prime Minister in Downing Street. Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness are understood to have met Gordon Brown amid fears of a standoff between Sinn Fein and the DUP at Stormont. DUP leader and NI First Minister Peter Robinson, and party colleague Gregory Campbell, met Mr Brown on Tuesday. A Sinn Féin source said its meeting focused on issues including the devolution of policing and justice powers. The DUP has played down talk of deadlock at Stormont, while Sinn Féin described its Downing Street visit as "routine". On Tuesday, a meeting of the NI power-sharing executive, set for Thursday, was called off at short notice. Other parties have claimed that a standoff between the DUP and Sinn Féin is causing deadlock in the executive. The cancellation means ministers will not have held a formal...
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