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On 29 January 2024, an urgent meeting of the Democratic Unionist Party executive was called following the passing over the deadline to restore power sharing at Stormont. [50] Details of the meeting was reportedly leaked to loyalist activist Jamie Bryson. [51] [52] Jeffrey Donaldson revealed in the morning that his party would return to Stormont.
DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said that he cannot be certain that Stormont powersharing will return by the end of the year. Sir Jeffrey had said in recent weeks that the UK Government was ...
The nationalist SDLP and non-sectarian Alliance Party urged Mr Sunak to prevent the “vexatious use” of the Stormont brake and called on him to continue supporting efforts to restore power ...
From a restored power-sharing executive to smoky bacon crisps, Gareth Gordon looks at the political year that was. ... leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson was trying get his party to return to Stormont ...
The DUP threatened to pull out of Stormont's power-sharing government on 9 September 2021, triggering a snap election "within weeks" unless the protocol was scrapped. Donaldson warned: "I say not as a threat but as a matter of political reality that our political institutions will not survive a failure to resolve the problems the Protocol has ...
The Assembly's suspension from October 2002 to May 2007 occurred when unionist parties withdrew from the Northern Ireland Executive after Sinn Féin's offices at Stormont were raided by police, who were investigating allegations of intelligence gathering on behalf of the IRA by members of the party's support staff. The Assembly, already ...
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Arlene Foster MLA, who set up the scheme in her role as Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment minister. The Renewable Heat Incentive scandal (RHI scandal), also referred to as RHIgate [1] and the Cash for Ash scandal, [2] is a political scandal in Northern Ireland that centres on a failed renewable energy (wood pellet burning) incentive scheme that has been reported to potentially ...