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Pro-life groups demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in London last year to protest against attempts to decriminalise abortion. Pro-life campaigners claim votes by MPs on 17 June 2025 could lead to abortions up until birth.

Allister to oppose 'abortion until birth' vote in Commons

Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, who was shot dead by loyalists; the government has appointed a chairman to lead the inquiry into his death

Finucane inquiry: DUP hits out at 'foolish' Labour handling of Troubles legacy

TUV MP Jim Allister questioned the government's £50m 'preferential' spending on the GAA's Casement Park project.

Jim Allister criticises government's £50m spend on 'political' GAA

Morning View

Editorial: Continued civil service growth across the UK is concerning

The GAA still wants a £260 million Casement Park arena, not much less than the projected £300 million plus for Euro 2028

Lord Elliott: extra GAA cash will be seen as 'excluding unionists'

Economy minister Gordon Lyons has announced the reinstatement of Winter Fuel Payments

Stormont minister Gordon Lyons confirms winter fuel payments will be restored

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has announced a U-turn on winter fuel payment cuts. Picture: James Manning/PA Wire

Winter fuel payment changes should be replicated in Northern Ireland - minister

Martin Lewis, founder of MoneySavingExpert.com, says the previous threshold for Winter Fuel Payments set last winter was “just far too low". Photo: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire.

‘Lessons to learn’ from government's winter fuel payments U-turn

(Photo: Peter Byrne - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Labour restores Winter Fuel Payment to millions of pensioners

Morning View

Editorial: Reform UK chair Zia Yusuf right to go if he can’t stomach policy

UUP Cllr Mark Ovens

Sinn Fein silencing of Ulster Unionist councillor raised in Parliament

DUP MP Jim Shannon

Clarity needed on Labour’s winter fuel u-turn: Jim Shannon

Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to BAE Systems in Govan, Glasgow, to launch the Strategic Defence Review. Photo: Andy Buchanan/PA Wire

Unionist leaders push government on its defence spending commitment to NI

Religious commentator Dr John Coulter.

Dr John Coulter: Christian Churches need to lobby for compulsory voting

Morning View

Editorial: Labour’s foolish approach to mass immigration

Morning View

Editorial: Tory leadership hopeful does good work exposing fare dodgers
News Letter editorial on Friday May 30 2025:
Editorial

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage - an opportunist who says the right things about immigration - wiped the floor with the main parties at the recent council elections in England

Letter: People are fed up with Labour stance on immigration

Sir Keir Starmer and the EU’s Ursula von der Leyen at last week’s Brexit ‘reset’. While moving food may eventually become easier, the UK government is pushing ahead with plans to make the Irish Sea border harder

Owen Polley: It is hard to care about purity of Brexit that never applied to NI

Morning View

Editorial: Labour is beholden to global courts

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. Picture date: Wednesday May 21, 2025. PA Photo.

Welcome for PM ‘u-turn’ on winter fuel payments

Many who have been dismissive of Nigel Farage or his supporters have regretted it - he is here to stay and may achieve some success in fixing our ails

Letter: NI politicians should seek solutions to bigger issues

Some left-wing politicians claimed Sir Keir Starmer was deliberately copying language used first by Enoch Powell

Owen Polley: NI progressives just can’t get serious about immigration

Sir Keir Starmer at an anti-Brexit 'Trust the People' march and rally when he was Shadow Brexit Secretary. Photo: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

Allister: Government is 'sabotaging' Brexit as UK-EU deal expected

Morning View

PM’s immigration plan is belated and inadequate

TUV MP Jim Allister.

Government’s answer on trade deals ‘is no answer’ – Jim Allister

Kemi Badenoch is hamstrung by past Conservative failures in government

Owen Polley: Northern Ireland looks short of saviours at Westminster

As we mark VE Day, we should consider how Northern Ireland is being treated as inferior in terms of rights to the rest of the UK

Letter: Honour spirit of VE Day and make all UK citizens equal
A letter from R G McDowell:
Letters

Morning View

Editorial: Farage’s chance to take lead on immigration

Those who denigrate Nigel Farage at best do so out of ignorance, writes David McNarry

Letter: Nigel Farage will respect a single, united unionism

Reform UK has had stunning success due to issues such as immigration. Sarah Pochin and party leader Nigel Farage after the party won the Westminster seat in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election at DCBL Halton Stadium, Widnes, Cheshire. Pic: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Ben Lowry: Victory for Reform but I don't expect Farage to show interest in NI

Kneecap performing at the SSE Arena in Belfast in December 2024. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Kneecap 'happy to meet' daughter of murdered MP Sir David Amess, says manager

(Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)

Business Briefing: Xbox prices rise and Harrods hit by cyber attack

Morning View

Editorial: The government has duty to push back against courts' Sean Brown order

Steve Baker’s attitude, that NI must accept a relationship with the EU that he would never support for the rest of the UK, was indefensible. As was the implication that prioritising the Union, rather than Brexit, is zealotry

Owen Polley: Steve Baker's hypocrisy does not mean that Labour is better

Ulster Unionist peer Lord Empey.

Lord Empey hits out at NIO minister's border poll comments

Former Tory leadership contender Robert Jenrick

Jenrick ‘coalition’ remark puts pressure on Badenoch

Kemi Badenoch has vowed to end the “cruel” family farm inheritance tax

Kemi Badenoch has vowed to end the “cruel” family farm inheritance tax

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Hilary Benn and NIO minister Fleur Anderson. Photo: Rebecca Black/PA Wire

NIO minister’s border poll criteria comments are ‘ill-considered’ - DUP

Colin Neill (Hospitality Ulster), Glyn Roberts (Retail NI), Julie Galbraith, Managing Partner, DWF in Northern Ireland, and Stephen Kelly (Manufacturing NI)

DWF announced as headline sponsor for major Trade NI business delegation to West...

Morning View

Editorial: Tories let in a massive influx of migrants but Labour set to be worse

Morning View

Editorial: UK civil service is crucial, but reforms are welcome

Morning View

Editorial: Insurance rise is disguised way of raising funds

Gerard Greene, chief executive of Community Pharmacy NI, has warned about the effects on services.

Dentists, pharmacies and GPs warn of 'collapse' from National Insurance hike

Dr Livia Tossici-Bolt at Poole Magistrates' Court where she has been found guilty of two charges of breaching the Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) in the area of an abortion clinic in March 2023 and handed a two-year conditional discharge. Picture : Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

US backed pro-life campaigner convicted of breaching buffer zone

Jack Steele has objected to the ongoing influence of the EU in NI affairs

Unionist student 'optimistic' message about EU involvement in NI getting through

The new Labour government appears set on further bad decision-making by reopening legacy inquests and the hugely expensive and often ineffective public inquiries, such as the already announced inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane, writes Lord Elliott

Letter: Labour government has an opportunity to address legacy failures

Labour has proudly reset relations with Ireland, including the recent summit in Liverpool, above, involving the highest levels of the UK and Ireland governments, and has not pushed back at all against Ireland for suing Britain over legacy (Photo by Peter Byrne - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Ben Lowry: The UK response to Ireland suing it on legacy has been feeble

Letters to editor

Letter: Other nations deport criminals and protect their borders but not Britain

Morning View

Editorial: A fresh u-turn is needed by the government, this time on employment

Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Hilary Benn (pictured at a conference in December 2024) says Labour's benefit reforms have to be done. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Benn defends benefit cuts, saying 'unsustainable' system needs reform

(Photos: Getty Images/Alex Nelson)

Spring Statement: relief but unconvinced - I’m still reeling from cuts

Baroness Foster says new UK employment laws would damage economic growth and productivity.

Baroness Foster says new employment rights laws would 'unsettle' the UK economy

The Tory leader Kemi Badenoch in Parliament with her 'policy brain' and Northern Ireland spokesman Alex Burghart. Picture: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Thatcher was a scientist, Badenoch an engineer

Morning View

Editorial: Labour sets out a hypocritical but necessary fiscal approach

The UK Government is “choosing weapons of war over people and public services”, Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill has said.

Government choosing weapons over public services – Michelle O’Neill

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