Jim Allister

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has told party members that he's not fixated by timeframes amid speculation that a deal is imminent. Photo: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press.

Donaldson: Green lane neither 'acceptable or practical'

The EU has made clear that the Windsor Framework is not up for negotiation.

EU silent on DUP sea border ask

Unionist leaders Doug Beattie, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Jim Allister have had varying approaches to dealing with the post-Brexit trade arrangements.

Protocol ‘straitjacket’ will prevent DUP's customs ask – Allister

The £15m Merrow Resort and Spa scheme next to the NW200 paddock on Portstewart’s Ballyreagh Road was first lodged in 2016. The hotel is to include 119 rooms, two restaurants, a spa and conferencing facilities for up to 350 people

Developer 'committed' to delivering £15m hotel and spa in Portstewart

This summer marked 25 years since the Drumcree standoff. By refusing any compromise the Orange Order lost its image of invincibility, writes Alex Swan. Picture By: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press

Letter: It's a choice of stubborn intransigence or compromise

The £15m Merrow Resort and Spa scheme next to the NW200 paddock on Portstewart’s Ballyreagh Road was first lodged in 2016. The hotel is to include 119 rooms, two restaurants, a spa and conferencing facilities for up to 350 people

Plans for £15m Portstewart hotel and spa deferred over 'land ownership' issues

Jim Allister MLA has called Peter Robinson's intervention on DUP - Government talks over the Irish Sea border "folly".

Allister hits out at Robinson's "flawed analysis" on Stormont return

The former first minister Peter Robinson has intervened on what he believes the DUP needs to secure from any future deal with the government.

Peter Robinson: Deal needs to be done by New Year

Before the last Assembly election Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said border checks “are the symptom of the underlying problem, namely, that Northern Ireland is subject to a different set of laws imposed upon us by a foreign entity” Presseye/Stephen Hamilton.

Analysis: The DUP's seven tests and the 'problem' of EU Law

TUV Leader Jim Allister speaks during a anti-Northern Ireland Protocol rally in Bangor, County Down. Picture date: Saturday April 30, 2022.

New UK potato rules 'treat NI as a third country’ - Allister

Former prime minister David Cameron leaving Downing Street, London, after being appointed as Foreign Secretary in Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's ministerial reshuffle following the sacking of home secretary Suella Braverman. Maja Smiejkowska/PA Wire

NI parties critical of Cameron appointment

Jim Allister says the Protocol is Sinn Féin’s means to the end of Irish unity

Protocol ‘means to an end’ for Sinn Fein - TUV

Editorial by the News Letter asked searching questions of unionist leaders

King Charles delivers a speech, setting out the government’s plan, beside Queen Camilla at yesterday’s State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords. Photo: Leon Neal/PA Wire

King's Speech: Northern Ireland more and more a place apart says Jim Allister

Members of the House of Commons and Lords during the State Opening of Parliament, in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster in London on Tuesday. Photo: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Passing reference to Union shows why Stormont should stay down: Allister

It has been clear for a while that he wants the DUP to return to Stormont, and his speech to his party conference last month was explicit about that. Pic Arthur Allison, Pacemaker

Ben Lowry: Yes, our editorial on Stormont was blunt - but for a reason
If you want to get an idea of the pressure that the DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is under, consider a press release released by a rival yesterday.

Right to Life UK has used the 56th anniversary of the Abortion Act receiving royal assent to call on people to be proactive and lobby their politicians to introduce legislative safeguards for unborn babies

Catherine Robinson: Abortion laws are failing both women and unborn babies

TUV leader Jim Allister has responded to Steve Baker's comments that a “50% plus one” majority would not be advisable for a vote on Irish unification

Jim Allister comments on 'salami slicing of the Union' without consent

As the late Lord Trimble accurately said ‘the Union is the Acts of Union’

Jim Allister: Article 6 of Acts of Union must be restored

Parliament Buildings at Stormont, Belfast. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA

Union undermined ‘by Sinn Fein at Stormont’s wheel’ Jim Allister has said

TUV leader Jim Allister. Photo: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Restoring NI's place in the UK internal market will help business community: TUV

TUV leader Jim Allister and Jamie Bryson have fired warning shots over the head of Sir Jeffrey Donaldson over any deal on the NI Protocol, as he prepares to meet DUP members in his annual party conference. Photo by Stephen Hamilton / Press Eye.

Allister and Bryson issue warnings ahead of DUP conference

Letters to editor

Letter: State can be dismantled without breaching agreement

The Israeli flag shines on Ten Downing Street in solidarity with the people of Israel. The Government has asked all UK government buildings to do likewise.

NI doubts over UK’s request to fly Israel flag

People take part in a solidarity demonstration with Israel on Pariser Platz at the Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. (Fabian Sommer/dpa/via AP)

Sinn Fein must condemn Hamas attack, says Ian Paisley

A Tesco pack of sausages from Cumberland, next to an EU flag

EU and UK govt refuse to say how cross-border sausage rules can be enforced

TUV leader Jim Allister

TUV takes out full page adverts about the NI Protocol
The TUV has taken out full-page newspaper adverts warning against “any unionist acceptance of the Windsor Framework”.

Letter to the editor

Letter: Unionism has made it clear - it’s protocol or power-sharing

Shipping containers stored at a site at Belfast Harbour. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Unionist division remain as new GB/NI customs measures come into force

Morning View

Editorial: Pro life parade in Portadown is a challenge to another badly devised ...

TUV leader Jim Allister speaking during a anti-Northern Ireland Protocol rally in Bangor, Co Down in April 2022. Photo: PA

Key essence of unionism is equal citizenship - not Stormont: Jim Allister

The Education Authority has confirmed that an IT system used by schools across Northern Ireland allows teachers to record the transgender identities and preferred pronouns of children without parental knowledge. The information has been brought into the public domain by TUV leader Jim Allister via the BBC Stephen Nolan Show.
Photo by Stephen Hamilton / Press Eye.

Stakeholders and parties silent on school trans row unearthed by TUV

The Education Authority has confirmed that an IT system used by schools across Northern Ireland allows teachers to record the transgender identities and preferred pronouns of children without parental knowledge. Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Schools record pupil trans identity without parental knowledge

Lord Bew on the BBC show Sunday Politics today

TUV reacts to Lord Bew call to accept Windsor Framework 'despite imperfections'

One of the flags and symbols used by the transgender movement

Must schools embrace child's declared gender identity against parents' wishes?

Jim Allister during the TUV manifesto launch at the Dunadry Hotel, May 2023

Pic Colm Lenaghan/ Pacemaker

Allister references Nazi puppet regime in response to Windsor Framework rumours

The Assembly Chamber at Parliament Buildings. ‘Rigorous implementers’ of the NI Protocol are in the majority at Stormont and therefore a return of the powersharing executive would 'inevitably be an aid, not an obstacle, to protocol rule', writes Jim Allister

Letter: Seven reasons why Stormont cannot return while the protocol remains

Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris and European Commission vice-president Maros Šefčovič pictured during a visit to Youth Action in Belfast. They are pictured meeting Kasey English with her son Kai English Mason. Photo: Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye.

Peace Plus money 'predominantly British largese’: Jim Allister

Mary Taylor, the wife of Lord Kilcooney (pictured) has died at her home at the age of 73

Tributes paid to 'great lady' as Lady Kilcooney passes away

Letters to editor

Letter: Varadkar did not defend 'Ooh, ahh, up the Ra' song lyrics

The new labelling on Asda produce says Not for EU on the second line of the label, a requirement of the new Windsor Framework which will be necessary from October. Photo: BBC

NI continues to diverge from rest of the UK when it comes to Brexit

Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris launched his controversial sex educations plans for Northern Ireland in June. His plans are based on recommendations for Northern Ireland made by a UN Committee based in New York.

Heaton-Harris sex education lessons will advocate for abortion – TUV

Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris launched his controversial sex educations plans for Northern Ireland in June. His plans are based on recommendations for Northern Ireland made by a United Nations Committee based in New York.

Sex education consultation will be too quick and too narrow, say critics

Letters to editor

Letter: Police chief wanted to appease the enemies of the state

Chief Constable Simon Byrne at the Policing Board office in Belfast last week. Pic: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

More pressure on Chief Con Simon Byrne after two officers 'thrown to the wolves'

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says his party won't be 'deflected by off stage noises'. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Finding a solution to Windsor Framework is only way forward says DUP leader

TUV leader Jim Allister has urged the DUP to stand firm

We cannot be the ones to destroy Union says TUV leader Jim Allister

The Northern Ireland Centenary Stone was due to be installed at Stormont in 2021 but was blocked by Sinn Fein.

Unionist leaders 'not asked' about moving stone to more expensive site

TUV leader Jim Allister said that if Mr Baker's comments were the government position, then "Stormont is dead" for any principled unionist.
Photo by Stephen Hamilton / Press Eye.

'Operating Windsor Framework from Stormont would dismantle union'

An opinion poll has suggested that support among unionist voters for UUP leader Doug Beattie (pictured) is only half that of DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and almost half that for TUV leader Jim Allister. Picture date: Friday February 17, 2023.

Unionist support for Beattie only half of that for Sir Jeffrey, claims new poll

The protocol confirms Northern Ireland as EU territory governed by its trading laws , writes Jim Allister

Jim Allister: The protocol noose is tightening

Footage of the crowd joining in a chorus of the IRA chant 'Tiocfaidh ár lá' and 'Ooh ah up the Ra' at a support act to the Wolf Tones concert at Falls Park on Sunday August 13 the the west Belfast Féile an Phobail

Once again West Belfast Festival descends into IRA chants: Jim Allister

Ian Paisley said Leo Varadkar has a "big mouth" after his comments on the restoration of Stormont

Leo Varadkar slammed by unionists for making Stormont demand

Baroness Kate Hoey attends an anti-Northern Ireland Protocol protest rally in Newtownards

Kate Hoey: I've no desire to join TUV or any other unionist party

TUV leader Jim Allister during the TUV Aprill 2022 Manifesto at the Dunadry Hotel. Photo: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Under the Northern Ireland Protocol we will never be a full part of the UK: TUV