Ulster Unionist Party

‘This new generation doesn’t like the past’: A night at a unionist meeting

Unionists are ‘allowing republicans/nationalists to get inside our heads’ and control narrative on Irish unity being ‘inevitable’

Support for planning is evident among those for and against Irish unity

Voters are able to distinguish between wanting something to happen and planning for it to

DUP’s first attempt to use the Stormont brake ends in humiliation

Compounding the unionist party’s agony, it requested the brake over a matter so apparently trivial - font sizes on labels for chemical products - that it sounds like a satirical joke

Conor Murphy’s puzzling move to the Seanad crystallises sense of an unsettled Stormont

Sinn Féin says Murphy will use his new position to advance ‘Irish unity debate in the Oireachtas’, yet he has vastly more scope to do so as a Stormont Minister

Daft Brexit rules have brought havoc for the Alliance Party as well as Northern shoppers

Alliance doesn’t sit on the fence, it walks a tightrope - but it has fallen off over EU regulations

Assembly elections postponement ‘the biggest single setback in years’, Sinn Féin warned

The unreasonableness of David Trimble’s behaviour sometimes obscured the reasonableness of his argument, said Tony Blair

From Blair and Clinton to civil servants in the shadows, archive papers reveal scale of peace push

IRA Army Council management by Gerry Adams, Bertie Ahern’s referendum worries and unionists’ mistrust are revealed in documents

Stormont votes to retain some EU trade laws post-Brexit for Northern Ireland

Rules will continue to serve as a means of maintaining an invisible Border on the island for further four years

Gavin Robinson and the DUP need to reach out with style as well as substance

The DUP gives the impression of modernising at minimum speed, while being constantly tempted by conservative culture-war positions

Northern Ireland’s young people may change the world, but first they have to learn to vote

Under-25s divide equally between a united Ireland or staying in the United Kingdom

Thirty years on from ceasefire, loyalist communities remain ignored, poor and threatened from within

‘People try to make distinctions between a good paramilitary and a bad paramilitary. A good paramilitary might be somebody who sells coke on a Saturday night. A bad paramilitary would be somebody who’s dealing heroin’

If Stormont collapses again it is ‘gone for good’, UUP leader warns

Mike Nesbitt tells Ulster Unionist Party conference assembly is ‘precious asset’ and says ‘no better alternative’ to devolution

New Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt urges colleagues not to ‘wash dirty linen in public’

Sole candidate said he was confident he had support of vast majority of UUP representatives

UUP needs to become the Progressive Democrats to the DUP’s Fianna Fáil

The UUP could become unionism’s champion of centre-right or centrist good government, challenging the populism and incompetence of the DUP and Sinn Féin

Mike Nesbitt likely to succeed Doug Beattie as Ulster Unionist Party leader

Mike Nesbitt in line to become next Ulster Unionist Party leader as deputy leader and Lagan Valley MLA Robbie Butler announces he would not stand

Mike Nesbitt likely to succeed Doug Beattie as Ulster Unionist Party leader

Lagan Valley MLA Robbie Butler announced he would not stand and gave backing to Nesbitt

Something weird is happening to the North’s economy, and for once Brexit is not responsible

The public sector is crumbling as essential reforms fall prey to spineless politics. Yet the private sector is booming

Outgoing UUP leader rules out standing in any forthcoming leadership contest

Doug Beattie addresses speculation some party members want to see him reinstated

UUP opens nominations process as it moves to replace Beattie

Party leader resigned this week, citing internal tensions among reasons for departure

Doug Beattie’s personal failings would have mattered less if he had delivered votes

Beattie was unique in that nationalists, republicans and Alliance voters seemed to like him more than other unionists

The Irish Times view on the UUP leadership: time for a shift

The difficulty for the party is it is hemmed in on one side by the DUP and on the other by Alliance

Doug Beattie steps down as UUP leader due to ‘irreconcilable differences’ with party officers

The Upper Bann Assembly member said leading the Ulster Unionist Party had been a ‘lonely’ experience at times

Doug Beattie, like other UUP leaders, struggled to figure out what the party stood for

Current deputy leader Robbie Butler the most likely to step into the Ulster Unionist Party breach but whoever the next leader is they will face the same internal party tensions

Westminster elections leave Northern Ireland parties with choices and questions

Turnout for the UK general election was down in each of Northern Ireland’s constituencies. Forecasting is a hazardous business, but where does this leave political parties?

Unionism needs to build a pro-union majority, not fall back into finger-pointing and name-calling

Movement needs to focus on Northern Ireland that works and stops looking like outlier in UK

NI election: Sinn Féin now biggest party in Westminster, Stormont and council after DUP losses

Alliance makes history with first non-DUP MP in Lagan Valley, while TUV unseats Ian Paisley

How did Northern Ireland vote? A full breakdown of how each constituency voted in the UK election

Full results for the 18 Northern Ireland constituencies

Northern Ireland voters go to the polls in general election with several constituencies hotly contested

Sinn Féin is seeking to cement its position as the largest party after securing most seats in recent Assembly and local council polls

DUP has most reason to be anxious as North’s parties prepare for Westminster vote

As Sinn Féin learned earlier this month in the South, the difference between success and failure is often about expectations

The election countdown may be on, but it feels as if Northern Ireland is still getting used to it

With the DUP under pressure, Sinn Féin could overtake it to have the greatest number of seats at council, Assembly and Westminster level

Can Sinn Féin pull off its left-right, North-South balancing act?

The party may move economically left and socially right in the Republic - but it needs to stay the course in Northern Ireland

Agreement to run non-party unionist candidate for Fermanagh and South Tyrone seat proposed

Current Sinn Féin MP Michelle Gildernew rules herself out of defending seat as she is running in European elections

Northern Irish political parties gear up for July election with Sinn Féin seeking to overtake DUP

The DUP has eight MPs, while ‘abstentionist’ Sinn Féin has seven

Unionist parties are not about to merge – it’s hard enough holding them together individually

A choice of parties may be essential for unionism’s long-term health; the implosion of the Scottish National Party is a warning about putting all your eggs in one basket

Jeffrey Donaldson, at the heart of Northern Irish politics for nearly 40 years

From Enoch Powell to post-Brexit negotiations, former DUP leader has been an influential figure for decades

Who could take ministerial roles in a new Stormont Assembly?

Devolved government is set to return to Northern Ireland for the first time in two years on Saturday. These representatives could take the most prominent roles in the new Assembly

Stormont returns: who are the likely ministers in the new Northern Ireland Executive?

First step is the election of a speaker – the prerequisite for all other Northern Ireland Assembly business

Ireland and Britain must work on ‘Plan B’ if DUP does not end Stormont boycott - Michelle O’Neill

A further attempt to recall Northern Ireland’s powersharing government failed on Wednesday, when the DUP did not support the nomination of a Speaker in the Northern Ireland Assembly

Jeffrey Donaldson destroyed David Trimble. Is he about to do the same to himself?

Donaldson will have to tread carefully to avoid splitting the DUP the way he split the UUP and prevent the civil war that transformed the UUP into a basket case

Senior Sinn Féin and unionist politicians set up ‘secret group’ to discuss deadlock in peace process

State papers: UUP leader David Trimble was seemingly unaware of meetings being held in 2001 with members of his own party

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