Northern Ireland's DUP not convinced by London to restore government

FILE PHOTO: DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson speaks outside of a polling station during local elections in Dromore, Northern Ireland, May 18, 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo

BELFAST (Reuters) - The biggest pro-British political party in Northern Ireland said on Wednesday there had been no meaningful action from London to convince it to rejoin a provincial power-sharing government it scuppered last year over post-Brexit trade rules.

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) collapsed the devolved executive 17 months ago in protest at the first post-Brexit agreement with the EU and then rejected a fresh deal struck in February to end many of the new trade checks between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.