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BBC News Published media captionDoug Beattie says some UUP members may not like his "liberal credentials" Upper Bann MLA Doug Beattie has been elected as the new leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). Mr Beattie was the only candidate to run for the top post in the party. It comes after Steve Aiken announced his decision to step down as party leader after less than two years in the job. He said he had taken the party as far as he could. Nominations for the leadership closed at 12:00 BST o...

THOSE of us who heaved a sigh of relief following the solid rejection of independence in the 2014 referendum may have hoped for a few years of respite from the separatists. But it wasn’t to be. Almost immediately, the SNP and their Green collaborators began a clamour for Indyref2. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, a group of senior politicians from the main pro-union parties, together with former first ministers and officials from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, set up the Constitution ...

Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/30222 Northern Ireland: the fault-lines “haven’t gone away” Submitted by Anon on 17 March, 2007 - 11:44 Ian Paisley calls himself the “Leader of the Ulster People”. By that he means, leader of the Protestant-Unionist 56 per cent, or thereabouts, of the people living in the Six Counties. Now Paisley looks set to form a Six-County coalition government in partnership with Sinn Fein-IRA. Paisley is capable of shying away when...

Mr Beattie became party leader today (Monday) just weeks after Stephen Aiken stepped down. He was unopposed as the only candidate standing for the post and will be formally ratified as leader at the end of this month at the UUP party conference. Upper Bann MP David Trimble, who won the Nobel Peace Prize with SDLP Leader John Hume for his work on the peace process in NI, previously held the post. Pacemaker Press 17/05/2021:The Ulster Unionist Party held a Press Conference (Monday 17 May) at Parl...

BBC News By Chris Page image captionLisburns orange arch bears emblems of local branches of the Orange Order The symbols of unionism are never far away in Lisburn. In the city centre, theres an "orange arch" - a structure bearing emblems of local branches of the pro-union marching organisation, the Orange Order. It features a plaque unveiled this month, marking the centenary since the founding of Northern Ireland. And yet you dont have to look very hard to find evidence of unionist discontent....

Unionist politicians have taken a judicial review into the workings of the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Related stories Alice Harper (née Teggart) at her home in west Belfast with a picture of her father Daniel Teggart. Picture by Hugh Russell FOR some families it was a flyer they cant even remember picking up, for others a newspaper advert in The Irish News or Andersonstown News or a poster in a shop window. The year was 1998 and there was to be a conference organised by campaign group Relatives For Justice (RFJ) about forgotten victims at St Marys teacher training college on Belfas...

BBC News Published image copyrightPacemaker image captionArlene Foster on the steps of Stormont on 11 January 2016, on her first day as first minister of Northern Ireland Arlene Foster faced unprecedented challenges and monumental political changes during her tenure as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). From Brexit to the Irish Sea border and of course the pandemic, it has been a tough few years for Northern Irelands first minister, culminating in the revolt that has forced her to s...

Updated / Friday, 7 May 2021 23:23 David Trimble is among the signatories of the letter (file image) Unionist leaders who negotiated the Good Friday Agreement have written an open letter calling for the suspension of the Northern Ireland Protocol. The letter has been sent to Taoiseach Micheál Martin, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden and Maros Sefcovic of the European Commission. It is signed by, among others, David Trimble, the former Ulster Unionist Party leader w...

Loyalist protest parades to grow in intensity as GFA unionist leaders pen letter calling for suspension of Protocol Hundreds of loyalists took part in a protest parade in Carrickfergus on Thursday Connla Young North Down loyalist Jamie Bryson UNIONIST leaders who helped negotiate the Good Friday Agreement have penned an open letter calling for the Northern Ireland Protocol to be suspended. Included among the eight signatories, in the letter to European Commiss...