MLA sets up new consultancy business during Stormont's collapse

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It is the latest example of MLAs seeking other work during the collapse of the devolved institutions

Former party leader Steve Aiken has registered with Companies House a new firm called Periscope Global Solutions Ltd.

"It is hoped that the current impasse at Stormont doesn't last and that we can all get back to our primary role, that of being legislators for Northern Ireland." Since last year the DUP has been blocking Stormont's Executive and Assembly in protest against post-Brexit trade barriers with Great Britain under the Northern Ireland Protocol.

The UUP deputy leader said it was a "very special job" and insisted his application did not indicate a disillusionment with politics. Each week, our Political Reporter Brendan Hughes pulls together some of the biggest and most important matters from Belfast and Northern Ireland that we think you’d be interested in reading.

He recorded he was working for Down Business Centre, earning £1,188 per month to be paid to a property firm for which he is a director, Brown Estates.DUP MLA Trevor Clarke is a partner in a car sales business earning up to £3,000 working eight hours per month. SDLP MLA Daniel McCrossan is a director of a hospitality business, receiving up to £15,000 in the past financial year after working around 10 hours per week.

 

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