DUP may be standing firm, but Sir Jeffrey will need to set out his strategy come the autumn
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and the DUP’s powerful group of party officers have a lot of decisions to make come the autumn.
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Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and the DUP’s powerful group of party officers have a lot of decisions to make come the autumn.
The DUP has been told time and time again by friend and foe alike that its boycott of Stormont is ultimately an act of self-harm which damages the Union.
Unionist feeling on the protocol has hardened over the summer, with two-thirds saying the DUP shouldn’t return to Stormont until it is scrapped.
Two leading loyalists have appeared in court charged with taking part in an illegal anti-Protocol parade which also involved members of the South East Antrim (SEA) UDA.
October 2024. Labour has just won the general election and ended almost a decade-and-a-half of Tory rule. Prime Minister Starmer is settling into Downing Street, but it’s far from the only change of political direction in these islands.