Reaction as Jim Wells threatens to quit the DUP if they fail to block gay marriage

There would be a split in the DUP if a petition of concern was not used to veto gay marriage in Northern Ireland. That's the big claim from MLA Jim Wells reported in the Belfast Telegraph. "Peter will not marry Paul in Northern Ireland," he is quoted as saying. And asked whether the party would lift its veto in the Assembly, Wells said: "Don't even think that. That's an absolute no," he added. "Some of us would walk before that would happen. We feel very, very strongly about that." We asked both the DUP if Mr Wells or anyone else would come on this morning about this. The DUP said no, and that they were "not commenting on it". Stephen got reaction from Steven Agnew, leader of the Green Party NI, Stephen Farry from the Alliance Party, commentators Alex Kane and Allison Morris and Gavin Boyd from the Rainbow Project.