Iain Duncan Smith

Image posted up by Tory MP Lincoln Jopp of veterans protesting the possible repeal of the Legacy Act in London on Monday July 14 2025

Veterans of the NI Troubles protest about their treatment over legacy

Four Provisional IRA members – Kevin Barry O’Donnell, 21, Sean O’Farrell, 23, Peter Clancy, 19, and Daniel Vincent, 20 – were shot dead by the soldiers minutes after they had carried out a gun attack on Coalisland RUC station

MPs call for changes to coroners’ rules in response to Clonoe inquest

Jim Allister has support from all unionist MPs and support from parties across the Commons for his bill to remove the Irish Sea border.

MPs to debate Jim Allister's bill to remove the Irish Sea border

TUV MP Jim Allister has secured the support of all NI's unionist MPs for a new bill on the Irish Sea border

Unionists unite behind Jim Allister's sea border bill

The Conservative MP Dr Liam Fox joins campaigners for the rights of people with Down's Syndrome in Westminster. He says there is cross-party support to change laws that allow a foetus with Down’s syndrome to be aborted up until 40 weeks. "Many of us believe this is utterly against the purpose of our equality legislation," he says

Lynn Murray: Change abortion laws to give people with Down's right to be born

Rise & Fall of Boris Johnson review: Sticking the boot into former PM

Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch says she was not a participant to Northern Ireland’s “political process” and so could not comment, but also stressed the need to find a “comparative advantage” over the EU in terms of regulation in order to “seize the benefits of Brexit”.Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

Badenoch pours cold water on rumoured divergence deal

PM Rishi Sunak selling the Windsor Framework to business leaders in Lisburn shortly after it was announced last February.

Speculation on deal to soften impact of sea border

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds a Q&A session with local business leaders during a visit to Coca-Cola HBC in Lisburn, Co Antrim in Northern Ireland

Sunak: Windsor Framework creates 'world’s most exciting economic zone'

Morning View

Editorial: China should indeed be barred from King Charles's coronation

Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Not a chance in hell Johnson will resign, says former May aide

The former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith speaking from the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Tuesday October 5 2021

VIDEO: Ex Tory leader says Northern Ireland Protocol should be replaced

Taoiseach Mícheál Martin with First Minister Paul Givan and deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill in Belfast

Climate change fight ‘needs north-south co-operation’

Frank Shrivers, a businessman and member of the Northern Ireland Conservatives, at Belfast International Airport on his return from this week's Tory conference

VIDEO: Northern Ireland Conservatives reflect on their party conference

The audience at the Northern Ireland Protocol Fringe event at Manchester Art Gallery during Conservative Party conference, at which all three unionist party leaders agreed that the NI Protocol must be replaced. Monday October 4 2021

VIDEO: More reactions to the unionist response to the Northern Ireland Protocol

News Letter editorial

A helpful intervention from Iain Duncan Smith against Northern Ireland Protocol
News Letter editorial of Saturday October 2 2021:
Editorial

“I was always led to believe that the survival of the Union must ultimately come above all else for a Conservative government.

Ex Tory leader: NI’s place in UK looks more and more precarious due to protocol

Dr Dan Boucher is leaving the Conservative Party to join the DUP.

Northern Ireland Protocol: Leading Welsh Tory Dan Boucher to join DUP

The DUP says it will no longer cooperate with the Irish government on matters concerning the Northern Ireland Protocol.

LIVE BREXIT NI: DUP sets out plan to bin NI Protocol

Letter to the editor

A Saturday say

International travellers, including residents returning from abroad, could face police spot checks and fines if they fail to self-isolate on arrival in the UK (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s how much you could be fined if you flout quarantine rules after travellin...

A parliamentary veterans support group, which was founded in Westminster last month

Despite assurances to veterans of the Northern Ireland Troubles, politicians hav...

Chris Moncrieff

If Boris Johnson becomes prime minister today, he will face battles from the mom...

Theresa May denied there was an amnesty for terrorists

Troubles veterans ‘thrown to the wolves’ to pander to IRA and Sinn Fein

DUP Leader Arlene.
Photo: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press

DUP’s Arlene Foster to tell Barnier: stop ignoring unionists on Brexit

Prime Minister Theresa May. Photo: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

May faces Cabinet showdown after Brussels deal backlash

Iain Duncan Smith in the House of Commons, London. Photo credit: PA Wire

Theresa May must '˜listen very carefully' to DUP warnings, says former cabinet m...
Former Cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith has warned Theresa May to 'listen very carefully' to the DUP's warnings they could vote against her Budget if she crosses their Brexit red lines.
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Iain Duncan Smith. Photo credit: PA Wire

Brexit: Duncan Smith urges No 10 to talk to critics of Chequers plan

Theresa May

May told Brexit customs '˜backstop' plan must be short-term

Phillip Hammond is coming under mounting pressure

Chancellor faces pressure to back down over National Insurance hike

Prime Minister Theresa May and Chancellor Philip Hammond pictured on a visit to a business in Gloucestershire the day after his statement

Workers facing '˜dreadful' decade of wage stagnation

Morning View

Diane James will struggle to have the impact Farage had

Morning View

IDS is wrong: the UK should take its time over Brexit

Referendum on the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union Northern Ireland- Titanic Count Centre - Belfast

Win or lose this battle, we will win the war, says Farage

Corbyn has ammunition but still the PM flattened him

George Osborne, above in his Budget speech last week,rewarded the rich while taking Â£1.3 billion from the disabled. Photo: PA Wire

Sammy Wilson: We must not become two nations, one doing well economically, the o...

Sudden IDS exit leaves the Tory government in crisis

Morning View

IDS has bolstered those who decry '˜cruel Tory cuts'

The Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Revd and Rt Hon Justin Welby speaks at a recent event at the Elmwood Hall at Queen's University Belfast. By Peter Huey

Welby: '˜Anxiety over migration is reasonable'

I doubt Tory high command would want Boris as their leader

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