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Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)

July 2024

  • Emma DeSouza

    Unionism in Northern Ireland is dying out – just look at the fall of the house of Paisley

    Emma DeSouza
  • Sinn Féin leaders Michelle O'Neill and Mary Lou McDonald celebrate as Cathal Mallaghan is elected MP for Mid Ulster

    Sinn Féin on course to have more MPs than any other Northern Ireland party

June 2024

  • Party leaders on stage

    Northern Ireland politicians clash over health, the union, and Israel-Gaza war in TV debate – as it happened

    Representatives from DUP, Sinn Féin, UUP, SDLP and Alliance to face off from 9pm

April 2024

  • First minister Humza Yousaf speaking to the media during a visit to a housing development in Dundee.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Humza Yousaf says he’s ‘very confident’ of winning no confidence vote and he will ‘compromise’ with critics – as it happened

    First minister says he has ‘every intention of winning’ vote of no confidence and ‘believes in ability to work with and negotiate’ with opposition leaders

May 2023

  • Northern Ireland council elections: photo shows Belfast City Hall with a graphical overlay

    Northern Ireland council elections: all the latest results

    Find out which parties have won seats to Northern Ireland’s 11 local council areas after Thursday’s elections

December 2022

  • Tony Blair and John Reid in October 2002

    Minister said ‘elements’ in UK security services hostile to NI peace process

    Notes from 2002 record John Reid saying there was a potential ‘coalition’ trying to frustrate peace process in Northern Ireland

October 2022

  • The Edward Carson statue at Stormont

    Groundhog Day: why another Northern Ireland election looks like insanity

    Bar a dramatic surprise, the DUP will continue its boycott and doubts will grow over viability of institutions established by Good Friday agreement

September 2022

  • Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris

    Northern Ireland power sharing slips to 2023 as few relish a winter election

    Delay to protocol resolution likely to pause Stormont elections that were expected this year

July 2022

  • Bill Clinton and David Trimble in 2000

    ‘His legacy will endure’: tributes paid to David Trimble

  • David Trimble

    David Trimble, key architect of Good Friday agreement, dies aged 77

May 2022

  • Michelle O’Neill

    DUP blocks attempt to appoint Northern Ireland assembly speaker

  • Sinn Féin’s Michelle O'Neill

    The Guardian view on Northern Ireland: a mandate to govern

April 2022

  • Parliament buildings at Stormont, Belfast

    Northern Ireland: what could historic election win for Sinn Féin mean?

    Questions over whether win would bring a united Ireland closer, or if it could lead to complete collapse of assembly

February 2022

  • Doug Beattie being interviewed  at Stormont

    Stormont ‘could disappear forever’, says Ulster Unionist leader

  • Paul Givan speaks at a press conference to announce his resignation.

    Northern Ireland first minister resigns over Brexit checks on goods

January 2022

  • Doug Beattie

    Doug Beattie to continue as Ulster Unionist leader after ‘horrific’ tweets

    Leader wins party support after facing accusations of misogyny and racism over historical social media posts

November 2021

  • Joel Keys standing beside a large colourful mural, to the side of which is written 'young people can do wonderful things'.

    The young loyalist who dared contemplate the idea of a ‘new’, united, Ireland

    Activist Joel Keys says unionism would benefit from confronting, not avoiding, the things it finds most difficult

June 2021

  • Edwin Poots

    Edwin Poots is gone. But the DUP’s chaos should concern all of the UK

    Jon Tonge
    The Northern Ireland assembly is tottering, and April’s riots could return, says Jon Tonge of the University of Liverpool

December 2020

  • Ken Maginnis was accused of verbally abusing the security guard when asked to show his security pass.

    Lord Maginnis faces 18-month suspension for homophobic bullying

    Peer found to have bullied security guard and three MPs, including using homophobic language

August 2020

  • John Hume, the outgoing leader of the SDLP, in front of the Stormont Building, the home of the Northern Ireland Assembly, in 2002.

    John Hume obituary

    Leading Northern Ireland politician awarded the Nobel peace prize for his part in the process that led to the Good Friday agreement
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