Biden dangles $6bn investment if Northern Ireland power sharing agreed

US president tells Belfast audience that current figure could triple and hopes assembly and executive will soon be restored'

Joe Biden has dangled a $6bn (5bn) carrot in front of Northern Ireland's leaders with a promise to boost the country's economy with US investment if power sharing is restored.

In a thinly veiled message to the Democratic Unionist party, which has been boycotting the devolved government for more than a year, the US president told an audience in Belfast that American investors were ready to triple" the $2bn already invested.