Politics

The Government’s post-Brexit agriculture plans will have a “serious impact” on farms in Northern Ireland, MPs warned.

Theresa May will insist the Brexit deal is 95% complete as she faces MPs after a weekend of vicious attacks from within her own ranks.

Innocent victims of terror have been asked to acquiesce in the inversion of right and wrong by churchmen, politicians and the UK government, a church minister told the Ulster Unionist conference.

Westminster must scrap 157-year-old abortion laws to protect the rights of women in Northern Ireland, according to a Labour former minister.

Despite the confident rhetoric from the platform and the perfunctory applause, two recent electoral events mean that in private some of the more thoughtful senior UUP figures were concerned at the party conference on Saturday.

The DUP’s “grubby politics” and frequent scandals are undermining the Union and damaging the reputation of unionists across the UK, Ulster Unionist leader Robin Swann has said.

Europe is a force for peace in Northern Ireland and around the world, a pro-Remain rally was told.

A proposed extension to the Brexit transition period should only be considered if the EU drops its demand for a backstop, Dominic Raab has said.

In the latest essay in our series, ALAN McQUILLAN says that investigators in the coming legacy structures will have to contend with political pressure not to pursue those whose arrest might ‘destabilise the peace process’ (see beneath the story for link to rest of series):

The auditor brought in to investigate the RHI scheme as it began to fully dawn on civil servants that it was a major crisis has said that the scale of what he found was unprecedented in his experience.

There needs to be a radical cultural change within the Northern Ireland Civil Service, with civil servants spending public money in the same way they would spend their own cash, the most senior scrutineer of public expenditure in Northern Ireland has said.

Decisions made in the peace process have “destroyed” the ability to deliver for victims, one of Northern Ireland’s most experienced policemen of the Troubles says today.

You might have noticed our serialisation on page six of a 1738 edition of the Belfast News Letter And General Advertiser.

The DUP Brexit spokesman has said his party has not signed up to any border backstop, adding that the former leader of the UUP is on another planet for suggesting so.

The sister of a young lawyer shot dead by the IRA on the edge of Queen’s University has challenged Michelle O’Neill over the slaying.

Boiler owners facing reduced Renewable Heat Incentive payments following a court ruling are to have their appeal heard in full next year, it was confirmed on Friday.

DUP candidate Peter Johnston has been elected to Mid and East Antrim Borough Council.

East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson has issued a stinging statement accusing Taoiseach Leo Varadkar of having "lost any sense of self control in relation to the decision of the UK to leave the EU".