Michael Cousins Acting Managing Editor

Good morning

From the News Letter in print and online this morning:

* Political relationships between Northern Ireland, the rest of the UK, and Ireland, are “not where they should be”, Leo Varadkar has told a summit in Belfast.

* The Conservative Party is becoming more an “English nationalist party” that does not understand what is happening in the devolved nations, a DUP MP has said.

* A man who allegedly took a bag of guns, a smoke grenade and hunting knife into a busy shopping centre declared himself a soldier prepared to die, the High Court heard yesterday.

* Sinn Fein’s election rally at Belfast’s Europa Hotel was a show of strength for a border poll rather than a launch of policies to help families and rebuild the economy, the DUP has said.

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