When Ian Paisley Jr was eight, he declared: “What this country needs is a dictator, and I’m the man to do it.” For th...
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What unfolded in the early hours of yesterday morning reinforces what is an insoluble problem for unionism. Many unio...
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This is an extract from Uncovered with Sam McBride, a subscriber-only weekly newsletter from the Belfast Telegraph’s ...
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People Before Profit’s manifesto doesn’t use the word communism, but what it proposes is at least communism lite.
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Can you ever see the day when Sinn Féin MPs will take their seats in the House of Commons? For years, the party has w...
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This has been a remarkable election campaign in which every major Northern Ireland party has faced major problems, wi...
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The Green Party manifesto has the feel of a religious pamphlet. It sets out the party’s various “missions” with an ev...
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At 11,000 words, the SDLP’s manifesto is almost 10 times the length of Sinn Féin’s.
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After reading the manifestos of the two main unionist parties, I didn't expect that the most significant issue of com...
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North Down candidate Alex Easton has not ruled out making his controversial election agent or former DUP minister Jon...
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If the DUP was able to communicate with the public as well as its manifesto communicates its policies, Gavin Robinson...
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When Stephen Farry confounded many expectations to become the first non-unionist MP for North Down in 2019, the polit...
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Independent candidate for Strangford
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Manifestos are inherently easier to write for parties which have never been in power.
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Alliance's is the second manifesto of the campaign and is very different from the first.
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As someone whose job means I’ve read a lot of party manifestos, Sinn Fein’s is both the shortest and blandest I’ve ev...
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Naomi Long is one of the most capable politicians of her generation, and yet a law which raised few eyebrows as it sa...
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In a long interview with the Belfast Telegraph, Colonel Tim Collins casually revealed that he made a million pounds i...
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Economy Minister Conor Murphy has said the presence of former civil servant Sue Gray should mean Northern Ireland has...
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An Ulster Unionist candidate in one of the party's top target seats has denounced alleged "price-gouging" by insuranc...
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Desperately grasping for hope after the Conservatives' dreadful start to the campaign, Rishi Sunak tonight needed to ...
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Elections aren’t just defined by what politicians decide; events seemingly unconnected to who runs the country can in...
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Last Wednesday, when Rishi Sunak stood forlornly outside No 10 Downing Street, he was actually channelling a predeces...
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A former Sinn Fein mayor of Derry is set to take on SDLP leader Colum Eastwood in Foyle in the General Election.
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In the year I was born, there was a Westminster election and the result now looks astonishing. Of Northern Ireland’s ...
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It is a measure of how much the DUP has squandered, and how much unionism has declined, that Lagan Valley is even bei...
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The daughter of a former UUP leader has been selected to stand in the General Election.
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