Sentences with phrase «former dup»

The former DUP Health Minister lost the party whip after he strongly criticised the leadership in the media.

In turn, the UUP will support former DUP Mayor of Belfast Gavin Robinson in his bid to win back the East Belfast seat from Alliance - Naomi Long unseated the DUP leader at the last general election.

Former DUP MP for South Antrim William McCrea was handed a peerage after nomination by his party.

The former DUP MP William McCrea is expected to be ennobled, taking the Northern Irish party, which props up May's government in the Commons, from three to four peers.

Former DUP colleague and friend Jeffrey Donaldson told Premier's News Hour it will be devastating for Revd Paisley's family.

Not exact matches

The prime minister also faced questions on Europe from opposition backbenchers, including the DUP's Nigel Dodds who repeated calls for a referendum and former business minister Pat McFadden.

Nick McPherson, the former Treasury chief, suggested on Twitter that the # 1bn deal reached by May with the DUP is no more than a downpayment.

DUP MP Gavin Robinson said the republican politician should submit to an interview with Neil, the no - nonsense former Times editor and BBC political interrogator - in - chief.

The DUP has a hard - line stance against gay marriage, with former health minister Jim Wells telling the Belfast Telegraph this year: «Peter will not marry Paul in Northern Ireland.»

When openDemocracy challenged DUP MP and Brexit campaign manager Jeffrey Donaldson about the donation in his constituency office this spring, he told us that the party had done proper «due diligence» on the donation, but then claimed that they hadn't known that the chair of the Constitutional Research Council had set up a business in 2013 with the former head of the Saudi Arabian intelligence service.

The origins and full details of the record DUP donation, were arranged through a former vice-chair of the Scottish Conservatives, Richard Cook, who runs a small Glasgow - based organisation called the Constitutional Research Council (CRC).

Former First Minister Peter Robinson, for example, who was DUP leader and Northern Ireland's first minister until last year, was an active member of Ulster Resistance.

However former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister Lord Hestletine said he didn't think an alliance between the Tories and the DUP would last the full term and warned another election could see the Tories lose power altogether.

The measure means that while the Electoral Commission can now publish information about any donations since July last year — and in the future — it is still banned from sharing key information about donations to Northern Irish parties during a period which included the European referendum, when the DUP received # 435,000 for their Brexit campaign from an unknown source via a secretive group in Glasgow whose chair set up a company in 2013 with the former head of the Saudi intelligence service.

Former minister demands answers on # 6,000 fine, questioning legality of DUP's mystery source of Brexit cash

However, the DUP did name the CRC's chair: former Scottish Conservative parliamentary candidate, Richard Cook.

A Canadian company with links to Cambridge Analytica, AIQ was involved in the Vote Leave campaign, receiving money from the former and another organisation known as BeLeave, as well as Veterans For Britain and the DUP in Northern Ireland.