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Geraldine Finucane, the widow of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, speaking during a press conference at St Comgall's - Ionad Eileen Howell centre in Belfast

Widow says time for truth as public inquiry into Pat Finucane murder announced

Pat Finucane, 39, was shot dead in his family home in north Belfast in February 1989 by the UDA in an attack found to have involved collusion with the State

Pat Finucane murder: NI Secretary Hilary Benn to make statement today

DUP leader Gavin Robinson MP speaking at the resumption of the House of Commons in July.

​Robinson: DUP has lessons to learn from election

Mike Nesbitt will inspire purpose and belief in the UUP again, writes Michael Palmer. He was the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party from 2012 to 2017 and has been a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Strangford since 2011

Letter: Mike Nesbitt is sure to win success for UUP

Former First Minister of Northern Ireland Arlene Foster at the 2023 Tory Party conference

Arlene Foster suggests MPs should be paid more

Both Stormont, above, and Westminster return two weeks today​​​​​​. ​When he visited the assembly after winning the election, Starmer implied he would fully implement the protocol – an ominous pledge

Owen Polley: Irish Sea border looms again as new parliamentary term starts

The first past the post electoral system has its disparities but has delivered strong, stable government more often than not, writes R G McDowell

Letter: Caution over changing the electoral system

Morning View

Editorial: The recall of Stormont in summer has become an annual display by MLAs

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood and south Belfast MP Claire Hanna sit on with Labour MPs in Westminster, rather than on the opposition benches with the other Northern Ireland MPs.

SDLP accused of 'somersaulting' across the Commons

North Down Independent unionist MP Alex Easton delivers his maiden speech in the House of Commons on Monday

MP Alex Easton recalls parents' death in fire during maiden Commons speech

Jim Allister delivering his maiden speech in the House of Commons

Allister: Labour 'presiding over' colonial situation in Northern Ireland

TUV leader Jim Allister and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage sat side-by-side on their first day in the House of Commons

Allister to keep Nigel Farage at a distance in Parliament

Jim Allister formally hands over his North Antrim seat at Stormont to the party's former Mid and East Antrim councillor Timothy Gaston.

New TUV MLA to challenge 'squander and rollover unionism'

Ben Habib (left), then the Reform UK deputy leader, and TUV leader Jim Allister during the TUV general election manifesto launch at Dunsilly Hotel in Co Antrim on June 21

Call for Reform UK and unionist 'pact' in House of Commons to help Union

The SDLP leader Colum Eastwood, left, let himself down when he shouted 'Derry' as the DUP leader Gavin Robinson MP referred to Londonderry in a light hearted speech on the resumption of the House of Commons on Tuesday July 9 2024 after the general election the week before

Wallace Thompson: It was petty of Colum Eastwood to shout 'Derry' at Robinson

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood joked that he "looks forward to the end of tribal politics"

SDLP outbursts as Parliament meets

Some of Northern Ireland’s new MPs spoke for the first time in the House of Commons on Tuesday, amid outbursts from two SDLP representatives from County Londonderry.

David Thompson

Agape Centre polling station in south Belfast opens for the 2024 General Election. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

General Election voting under way after weeks of campaigning

Morning View

Editorial: UK is set to buck trend and elect a pro immigration government

Morning View

Editorial: Sunak was better in last debate but Starmer too far ahead to be hurt

Letters to editor

Letter: Academics have failed to speak out against China's human rights abuses

Conservative MP and former home secretary Suella Braverman says the Windsor Framework is undermining Northern Ireland's place within the UK.

​Braverman: Windsor Framework not working

Rathlin Harbour pictured in 2006. Picture: Farming Life archives/Kevin McAuley

Bygone Days: Urgent need of a harbour for Rathlin Island raised in House of Comm...

Ian Paisley addressing the House of Commons, May 1, 2024

'Blame the bad old Brits': DUP MP rounds on Dublin government over migration

Rishi Sunak in the House of Commons today

Dispute over the return of asylum seekers between Ireland and the UK simmers on

Baroness (Kate) Hoey of Lylehill and Rathlin is a former Labour MP

Baroness Hoey: Why I’m delighted to share a platform with Ann Widdecombe

Encourage insects into green spaces. Photo: Adobe

Going Green: Try and encourage insects into green spaces

Morning View

Editorial: Sunak was right to sidestep Eastwood's demand for Kenova apology

News Letter editorial on Thursday April 18 2024:

Editorial:

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is no longer a DUP MP - but his name remains on a temporary sign at the party's Lisburn office.

TUV call for Donaldson resignation to allow by-election - but Alliance on fence

Canon Ian M Ellis, who is a former editor of The Church of Ireland Gazette. Writing in today's News Letter, Canon Ellis observes that the theory of emotional intelligence reminds him of the biblical injunction to love one's neighbour as oneself

Ian Ellis: Emotional intelligence (EI) and its deeply religious parallels

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson pictured at the count centre in Meadowbank Sports Arena, Magherafelt, as he held his Lagan Valley seat in the 2019 general election

Uncertainty over whether Donaldson will continue in role as MP

Letters to editor

Letter: The British government wages war then thinks it can define extremism

Colonel Tim Collins, who is running as a UUP General Election candidate, with party leader Doug Beattie. Collins is uniquely qualified to represent and advocate for the interests of North Down in Parliament, writes Stephen Hollywood

Stephen Hollywood: Collins’ ability to bridge divides holds immense value

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris and DUP leader Sir Jeffery Donaldson at Hillsborough Castle hold the agreement, called ‘Safeguarding the Union’ on January 31. Photo: Niall Carson/PA Wire

DUP peer: EU not UK govern key NI policies

Letters to editor

Letter: Farry should clarify what his remarks on EU mean re Irish unity

Kate Hoey addressing the Lords this evening

Hoey suggests DUP leader is trying to 'cover up his u-turn in a puff of smoke'

DUP MP Ian Paisley

Paisley says he will take plants to NI in hand luggage amid trade ‘friction’

Morning View

Editorial: We needed to know how MPs divide on Gaza yet speaker blocked that

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson making his impassioned speech about his unionist critics on January 24. Yet nationalists who harangued him for two years were not attacked by him in that way

Ben Lowry: Fellow unionists were hardly the best target for Sir Jeffrey

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson

Calls for details from Sir Jeffrey Donaldson over the threat against him

DUP MP Sammy Wilson has stepped down as his party’s chief whip at Westminster. Mr Wilson has been a vocal critic of his party’s deal with the Government which led to the restoration of Stormont

Sammy Wilson quits DUP chief whip role as divisions simmer within party

Ian Paisley MP condemned the SNP motion in the Commons today. Photo: Pacemaker

SNP motion was a 'denial' of Hamas attack on Israel, says Paisley

TUV leader Jim Allister and loyalist activist Jamie Bryson pictured in Parliament Buildings at Stormont on Friday. Mr Bryson is planning to challenge whether new government legislation restores the 'core constitutional provisions' of the Acts of Union

Legal action planned over deal which led to restoration of Stormont

The Union flag

NI Secretary says Northern Ireland is '100%' as British as London

NI Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has brought legislation as part of the government's deal with the DUP to the House of Commons

Deal legislation passed in Commons

A general image of a traveller beside a duty-free shop (KL International Airport in Sepang, photo credit should read JIMIN LAI/AFP via Getty Images)

DUP MP cites lack of access to duty-free at airports as he critiques deal

MLAs will have a meaningful say on whether future EU law applies in NI and the UK government will have the power of veto over any EU law that harms our ability to trade with the rest of the UK

Jeffrey Donaldson: We've squeezed all we can from talks and made real progress

An animated Jeffrey Donaldson addresses MPs in the House of Commons. In the course of his speech he told MPs he had been threatened by loyalists over rumours that a deal is being cooked up with the government which would see the DUP return to Stormont without the total removal of the Irish Sea border.

Owen Polley: DUP must accept its share of blame for the Irish Sea border

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson on stage with Jamie Bryson, right, at an anti-protocol rally in Lurgan in April 2022. Writing in today's News Letter, Mr Bryson says he is 'increasingly driven to the conclusion' that Sir Jeffrey 'is about to do a deal which betrays all the fundamental commitments made' in opposition to the NI Protocol

Jamie Bryson: If unionism accepts Irish Sea border, then it will accept anything

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday, January 24, 2024. Sir Jeffrey gave an impassioned speech, defending his own personal record as a unionist, as well as that of his party, and directing criticism at his unionist rivals in the TUV

Letter: ​A unionist speech hailed by nationalists is never good

An animated Jeffrey Donaldson addresses fellow MPs in the House of Commons

Donaldson erupts in Parliament in defence of his and DUP's records as unionists

The BBC licence fee is set to increase in line with inflation.

BBC licence fee set to increase in 2024 - here's what you need to know

Cathal Geoghegan, president, Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry

View: ​No game changing economic initiatives for NI

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Chris Heaton-Harris (centre) during his April visit to Coleraine Football Club. (Photo by Coleraine FC)

Irish League stadium funding in House of Commons discussion

Jeremy Hunt will announce the Autumn Statement today. Credit: Getty/Adobe/Mark Hall

Watch the Chancellor's autumn statement speech here

Sammy Wilson in the Commons on November 14, 2023

MP says 'now is not the time for a ceasefire - it'd drag out the conflict'