The legal team of the Northern Ireland MP responded by calling it an attempt to ‘to trivialise the relevant offensive postings’.

Sorcha Eastwood, first female MP to represent Lagan Valley, called for cancer diagnoses to be put back on the political agenda.

Sinn Fein has emerged for the first time as the party in Northern Ireland with the largest representation at Westminster.

Ex-DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson quit the leadership in March after being charged with historical sexual offences

The DUP introduced the applicability motion at Stormont

Sinn Féin described a motion brought by the DUP as a ‘sham fight’