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Edwin Poots calls for unionism to unite and end the bickering of the past after his DUP leadership win The newly-elected DUP leadership team of Edwin Poots and Paula Bradley. Picture by Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye/PA Wire 15 May, 2021 01:00 MP for Lagan Valley Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, leaves DUP headquarters after voting in the partys leadership election where he was defeated by Edwin Poots. Picture by Brian Lawless/PA Wire. NEW DUP leader Edwin Poots has called for uni...

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says he wants to become first minister as DUP prepare to vote for new leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said he would stand in the assembly and hopes to become first minister if elected 14 May, 2021 01:00 SIR Jeffrey Donaldson has said he will run in the next assembly election and hopes to become Stormont first minister if he wins the DUPs leadership contest. The Lagan Valley MP and partys Westminster leader is vying with Stormont Agriculture Min...

Gregory Campbell, Paul Frew and Paula Bradley vie to be DUP deputy leader DUP MP Gregory Campbell is the most senior of the deputy leadership contenders, having served as MP for East Derry since 2001 and spent 18 years as an assembly member.. Picture by Press Eye 06 May, 2021 20:00 Edwin Poots (left) is set to face Jeffrey Donaldson in a DUP leadership contest  VETERAN MP Gregory Campbell and assembly members Paul Frew and Paula Bradley have put themselves forwa...

BBC News Published image captionSir Jeffrey Donaldson and Edwin Poots are in the running for the DUP leadership Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) officers are to meet on Tuesday to discuss the procedure and timetable for the election of a new party leader. Stormont Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots and MP Sir Jeffrey Donaldson are bidding to succeed Arlene Foster. It is the first leadership contest in the partys 50-year history. Mrs Foster is stepping down as party leader on 28 May and resigning a...

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DUP urged to take action against councillor who suggested Michelle ONeill ‘will be put back in her kennel by new party leader Alderman John Carson 01 May, 2021 01:00 A CONTROVERSIAL DUP councillor apologised last night after saying that Deputy First Minister Michelle ONeill would be "put back in her kennel" by the new party leader. Ballymena representative John Carson, who last year claimed the Covid-19 pandemic was linked to the legalisation of abortion and sa...

Staff from Stormonts agriculture department are to return to work at Northern Irelands ports after they were stood down over safety concerns. Last week, workers carrying out post-Brexit trade checks at the ports were withdrawn by the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA). It followed claims by Mid and East Antrim Borough Council that "menacing behaviour" had been exhibited towards staff. Threatening graffiti appeared around the ports, however the PSNI later said the...

A unionist has called for co-operation with the Republic of Ireland to be frozen and work implementing the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol to be abandoned. The DUP should stop officials operating Irish Sea port checks on goods from the rest of the UK, Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader Jim Allister added. Mr Allister is his party’s representative at the Stormont Assembly and has a number of local councillors. Jim Allister has been a persistent critic of the large unionist parties a...