We've brought red lines out on the road again.

And now that we know there won't be an assembly election between now and Christmas,

we've come to Ulster University's impressive new campus right in the centre of Belfast

to talk about the challenges of living and working and studying in the city.

What are we getting right and what are we getting wrong?

How successfully are we managing the competing demands on this space?

And is there the political vision and leadership

to put this city on the map for all the right reasons in the years ahead?

Simon, is your glass half full or half empty?

It's more than half full.

I think that Belfast is, you might not appreciate this every single day walking around the city,

but I think Belfast is on very much heading in the right direction.

I think that it's a city that is five to ten years away from being perhaps at its peak in this era.

I think there's a lot of really good stuff happening.

And the new university campus here is, I think,

probably the single biggest regeneration project that the city has had in the last 25, maybe more years.

And I think we're only starting to reap the benefits of this and that will

cascade into other projects that are happening in the immediate vicinity and right across the city

right across the city centre and I think we're in the cusp of a great era for Belfast.

Grace we're in a university, you're a student leader. How does it all look to you? It's very positive. We've had

15,000 students in this new campus and there definitely is a new energy. There's an opportunity

for Belfast City Centre to have a community of students at their doorstep and we're really

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