SF's stance on the Army helping the NHS is unusually incoherent. If SF simply rejected it ideologically, it would make sense. But Conor Murphy told @markdevenport that wasn't the case, "we are not about politics in this game" & open to "any assistance we can get from anywhere". https://twitter.com/vincekearney/status/1249009996819554305

But now, with the surge having perhaps already begun, Michelle O'Neill today said "we must do everything to save lives" & in the next breath added "I don't believe British Army assistance is necessary...we are coping" - despite the Department of Health saying it needs help.

So the Dept of Health & every other party in the Executive - SDLP, Alliance, UUP & DUP - support the Army being called upon to help the NHS. But SF - which says it has no ideological opposition to British military involvement - claims it knows that it's still not necessary...