Sylvia Hermon won’t stand in the general election. Here’s why it matters
The independent unionist’s retirement opens up an unpredictable scrap for North Down.
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Northern Ireland Labour members to run independent election candidate
Rebel activists will defy the national party to run in Fermanagh and South Tyrone, complicating a tight race in one…
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Nigel Farage not running won’t change the next parliament. But this might
The Ulster Unionists have reneged on their promise to fight the DUP’s Nigel Dodds in North Belfast.
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The after effects of Northern Ireland’s “cash for ash” scandal
Northern Ireland’s RHI scandal feels so implausible that, in his new account of the fall of devolution, Sam McBride feels…
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Does the Ulster Unionist Party have Arlene Foster rattled?
The DUP leader has accused Steve Aiken, the UUP's leader-in-waiting, of handing seats to Sinn Féin.
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Boris Johnson’s deal has left Northern Irish loyalists uneasy, but will it lead to violence?
Protestant unionists see the Prime Minister's proposed Brexit "solution" as a threat, but for now few are predicting that opposition…
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Is Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal too complicated for the ministers who negotiated it?
Priti Patel, Stephen Barclay and the Prime Minister himself have all struggled to explain what will be happening with goods…
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The Belfast blindspot: How Britain still doesn’t get Northern Ireland
Few predicted that the Irish border would become the defining issue of Brexit – but then again, the British media…
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