Mandatory coalition has not only forced a marriage between two polar opposite political ideologies but has wedded this country to fear and division. Robbing this generation, and the next, of hope and ambition.

We the undersigned, exasperated and frustrated by a perpetual cycle of start-stop politics, call upon the Northern Ireland Secretary of State to initiate a review and subsequent reform of, rather than seek to renew, our dysfunctional and myopic system of governance.