Tony Blair's spokesman was today trying to squelch any incentive for further brinksmanship in the deadline to re-establish Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive by Monday --
Asked to clarify exactly when the deadline was, the PMS [spokesman] replied that the deadline would be at 00:01 on Tuesday morning. Put that there could therefore be further negotiations on Monday that the Prime Minister could be involved in, the PMS replied that it was not impossible.
No word yet on whether Ian Paisley has argued that the deadline really should be 01:01 on Tuesday morning, to account for the lost hour due to the switch to British Summer Time.
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