A new leader of the DUP but no new thinking

A letter from Harry Patterson:
DUP Leader Edwin Poots and Deputy Leader Paula Bradley address DUP Assembly Group meeting last Tuesday morningDUP Leader Edwin Poots and Deputy Leader Paula Bradley address DUP Assembly Group meeting last Tuesday morning
DUP Leader Edwin Poots and Deputy Leader Paula Bradley address DUP Assembly Group meeting last Tuesday morning

Anyone listening to Edwin Poots on Radio Ulster on Friday morning for any signs of a new direction or new thinking from the ‘new’ leader of the current largest unionist party will have been sorely disappointed.

It was quite depressing — the face has changed but that’s all.

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If you listened very carefully you could actually hear the votes falling away as he spoke.

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Letter to the editor

Harry Patterson, Castlecaulfield

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