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Gareth Gordon reflects on the tensions within the DUP after Arlene Foster was replaced.

PSNI probes claim UDA threatened DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldsons team during leadership campaign It was reported Sir Jeffrey made the allegation during a meeting of the DUP executive DUP MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson (Image: David Young/PA) Want the biggest politics stories sent to you every week? Simply sign up here and well do the restInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your informa...

Submitting... If he wanted, Mr Poots could re-emerge a form of unionism lacking from the constitutional debate for many years, that of integrationism. If Ulster is, to coin a phrase, to be as British as Finchley, then unionists must work to create a society in which Irish identifiers can say they are British. Instead of looking for differences in the Province, we must look for commonality across these ancient islands. That will be our basis to breakdown barriers and create a stronger British n...

Arlene Foster ousting a "political assassination", says ex-DUP MLA By Stephen Walker Published image captionBrenda Hale was awarded an OBE for political service in 2018. A former DUP MLA who represented the same constituency as Edwin Poots said the move to oust Arlene Foster was a "political assassination". Brenda Hale, who lost her Lagan Valley assembly seat in 2017, said she is "really sad and disappointed at the way that it was done". "She was undermined," Mrs Hale said. The former MLA said...

Brexit, together with shifts in both population and political allegiances, means that something now has to give, reckons Derek James

BBC News By Gareth Gordon Published image captionArlene Foster and Boris Johnson are expected to discuss the Northern Ireland Protocol The outgoing Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader and First Minister Arlene Foster will meet the prime minister in Downing Street on Thursday, the BBC understands. It is believed the meeting has been organised for some time. Mrs Foster is due to step down as DUP leader on 28 May and end her tenure as first minister at the end of June. She will travel to Lond...

You would not expect the most socially conservative politician in the UK and the most woke on the Left to be of the same mindset. Yet it is so: though both sides would react to such an observation with horror. On the one extreme we have Edwin Poots, last week elected leader of Northern Irelands Democratic Unionist Party, replacing Arlene Foster. Poots had led a coup against the current First Minister at Stormont, in part because her relatively liberal social attitudes (liberal in DUP terms, tha...

Jim Wells spoiled deputy leadership ballot paper because he could not vote for either candidate DUP MLA Jim Wells spoiled his vote in the DUP deputy leadership contest 17 May, 2021 01:00 DUP MLA Paul Frew withdrew from the DUP deputy leadership contest at the eleventh hour. Picture by Mal McCann FORMER health minister Jim Wells spoiled his vote in the DUP deputy leadership contest because he says he could not vote for either candidate North Belfast MLA Paula Bra...

BBC News By Conor Macauley Published image captionNorthern Irelands first ever Climate Bill is progressing through the assembly After a long and detailed debate, Northern Irelands first ever Climate Bill jumped an important assembly hurdle this week. The bill would commit Northern Ireland to a target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045. It would have implications right across society, for transport, business, and how we power and heat our homes. But it was the impact on one sector - f...

BBC News By BBC News following Boris Johnsons remarks about the Indian Covid variant. A former chief scientific adviser, Sir Mark Walport, has told the Times the situation is "poised on a knife edge", with a lot hinging on the transmissibility figure. The hospitality industry is said to be "in despair" at the fresh doubt, according to i weekend. But the chairman of the lockdown-sceptic Covid Recovery Group, Mark Harper, has urged ministers to "keep cool heads" in the Daily Telegraph - with ...