Mike Nesbitt

Ulster Unionist Party MLA Mike Nesbitt

Mike Nesbitt fears for the future of Unionism as he reflects on DUP's leadership

Letters to editor

Mike Nesbitt: Forever grateful to Brian Garett for his support on libel reform

Mike Nesbitt

Stormont boycott 'pretty close to an existential threat to Northern Ireland'

Mike Nesbitt said the appalling levels of low confidence in the PSNI was of major concern

PSNI data breaches: Nesbitt concerned about appallingly low confidence in PSNI

Sinn Fein's Deirdre Hargey speaking to the media following a meeting with the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, Jayne Brady, at Stormont Castle in Belfast. Picture date: Thursday August 17, 2023. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Revenue-raising proposals are ‘punitive and sinister’, Sinn Fein says

Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable Simon Byrne (left) and Assistant Chief Constable Chris Todd leave after a press conference following an emergency meeting of the Northern Ireland Policing Board at James House in Belfast, following a data breach. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Mike Nesbitt: A calamitous data breach by the PSNI

A quarter of children in Northern Ireland are overweight or obese

Health concerns over ditching of primary school sports scheme

PSNI chief constable Simon Byrne at the NI Policing Board meeting on 1 June 2023

'Don't let police budget cuts impact disproportionally on rank and file'

In many pro-Union council areas, the turnouts dipped below 50%. Irish Unity could become a reality by default. In many Australian elections, voter turnout usually always exceeds 90%

John Coulter: Ditch unionist liberalism and push for mandatory voting

If Stormont returns, the increased prominence of Sinn Fein, with its pastiche of left-wing politics, and its endless need to create grievances against Westminster, will make good government all but impossible. But there is potential for unionists to cast themselves as the responsible adults in an Assembly full of political children

Owen Polley: Unionism should focus on basics rather than party affiliation

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson speaks to the media in Belfast City Hall

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson: We need a big conversation on the way forward

Jeffrey Donaldson with DUP council candidate Dean McCullough

DUP leader indicates he is open to 're-alignment' of unionist politics

Mike Nesbitt and Edwin Poots

Election 2023: Ex-DUP and UUP leaders seek end to three-way unionist split

Northern Irish students who study at local universities currently pay £4,630 a year in tuition fees

NI budget crisis: Possibility of raising student fees to £7,000 to be considered

Ulster University Belfast

Stormont officials examining potential increase in student fees to £7,000

Doug Beattie at council election manifesto launch

Doug Beattie defends UUP's track record on outreach to nationalists
Speaking at the launch of his party’s council election manifesto, Doug Beattie defended the Ulster Unionist’s track record in reaching out to nationalists – including Mike Nesbitt attending the funeral of Martin McGuinness, and Robbie Butler attending a civic reception for Pope Francis in Dublin – but said people tend to have short memories.

Mike Nesbitt

Mike Nesbitt: We must impress on Americans there are 1m unionist voices in NI

David Holmes tribute

Live Henry McDonald: Tributes for 'reporter who always asked the right questions'

Action from the North West 200 in 2022

Calls for government to step in and save Northern Ireland road racing

Doug Beattie and Mike Nesbitt

WATCH: 'No threat' to Union - What did top UUP figures actually say on Protocol?

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 20th May 2022 - UUP leader Doug Beattie pictured at The Grand Central Hotel, Belfast

Doug Beattie says Protocol interview comments were taken out of context

Matthew O'Toole

Allister: MLAs will not face reality of protocol

UUP MLA Mike Nesbitt walks past a portrait of Lord David Trimble in the Great Hall of Parliament Buildings at Stormont.
Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

No point in Assembly recall while NI Protocol differences remain – Nesbitt

The then Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt with his predecessor Lord Trimble at a memorial for the murdered UUP MLA Edgar Graham in 2013 on the 40th anniversary of his killing. Photo: Kirth Ferris / Pacemaker Press

Mike Nesbitt: My predecessor as Ulster Unionist leader put people before party

Paddy Hopkirk in the driving seat of a 1964 Mini in 2014

Paddy Hopkirk: Tributes pour in for ‘original Northern Irish superstar’

Billy Bingham share a joke with Pat Jennings before a World Cup qualifying match against Romania in Bucharest in 1985

Tributes after passing of Northern Ireland manager Billy Bingham

The Irish flag outside Buckingham Palace during the broadcast

BBC confirms footage showing Irish tricolour at jubilee was made in-house
Unionists of differing stripes have continued to heap criticism upon the BBC for displaying the Republic of Ireland’s national flag outside Buckingham Palace during the Queen’s jubilee celebrations, in place of a Northern Ireland flag.

Rhys McClenaghan won Northern Ireland's only gold medal of the 2018 Commonwealth Games, taking the pommel horse title on Australia's Gold Coast.

UUP motion to support Rhys McClenaghan’s bid to compete at Commonwealth Games

News Letter editorial

It is clear that unionists need to have option of voting for a liberal party

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 6th May 2022 -

Mike Nesbitt - Ulster Unionist Party at the Northern Ireland Assembly Election Count at Titanic Exhibition Centre, Belfast

Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

ELECTION 2022: Ex-UUP boss calls on party to be patient with Beattie leadership

Mike Nesbitt today at at the Stormont election count for Strangford at Titanic Exhibition Centre, Belfast.

Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Election 2022: Mike Nesbitt admits he is in battle to stay in Stormont

Armagh city centre: Voters from the city go to the polls this week to decide which candidates will be elected from Newry & Armagh to represent them at Stormont. Photo: Google.

Newry & Armagh: UUP hopes to win back Danny Kennedy seat

Conor Murphy of Sinn Fein participating in an Audience with Northern Ireland's Political Leaders, organised by the CBI and chaired by BBC Northern Ireland's Economics and Business Editor, John Campbell, at Queen's University in Belfast.

Take the ideology out of NI Protocol negotiations, says Sinn Fein’s Conor Murphy

Letter to the editor

I urge Doug Beattie not to make the same mistake about the SDLP as Mike Nesbitt

The Economy Minister Gordon Lyons in Coleraine, publicising the High Street Scheme Spend Local card, which operated late last year. According to Mike Nesbitt, Mr Lyons had to concede his point "that it was possible to use the voucher to buy a £100 Amazon card, thus spending the money online, against the policy intent"

Mike Nesbitt: The jury’s out on the merit of the high street voucher scheme

The Euros trophy

Premature to end NI involvement in bid for Euro 2028: MLA

Three P&O Ferries, Spirit of Britain, Pride of Canterbury and Pride of Kent moor up in the cruise terminal at the Port of Dover in Kent. Photo: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

Union representatives set to brief Stormont on legal plans against P&O

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson could contest the upcoming Assembly elections while also remaining MP for Lagan Valley at Westminster

DUP claim other parties guilty of ‘fake outrage’ over double jobbing

RUC officer at the scene of a terrorist atrocity in Belfast city centre in 1987. Photo: Pacemaker

Nesbitt joins calls for apology over MLA's 'sectarian' RUC comments

Former UUP leader Mike Nesbitt said: "I take no pleasure in describing the president's decision as a massive own goal"

President Higgins’ actions are massive own goal, says ex UUP leader Mike Nesbitt

The Finance Minister Conor Murphy is not supportive of my defamation reform plan. He wants to wait and see what Dublin is going to do

Mike Nesbitt: Why I am trying to reform Northern Ireland’s libel laws

President Michael D Higgins

Michael D Higgins set to miss NI centenary event with Queen

Stormont’s deputy speaker Roy Beggs put the matter of Mike Nesbitt's libel reform bill to an oral vote, and there were no objectors

Mike Nesbitt’s libel reform bill unanimously passes vote to go to next stage

The full-page ad featured a picture of a smiling female PSNI officer

PSNI recruitment ad with GAA sparks loyalist concern

Villarreal fans enjoy the atmosphere in Belfast city centre on Wednesday before the Super Cup match against Chelsea

Mike Nesbitt hopes Super Cup ‘buzz’ could have lasting benefits for NI

It has been almost a year since Judith Thompson left the victims’ commissioner role

New NI victims’ commissioner ‘nonsensical’ without reform, says leading victims’...

Hunger striker Thomas McElwee's image being carried in a parade.

Sinn Fein under fire for ‘commemorating bomber but not his victim'

Sam McBride: Amnesty involves moral judgement, and has historical implications

UUP MLA Mike Nesbitt. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Nesbitt demands Farry withdraw ‘grievance factory’ claim on NI Protocol

Ian Paisley Jnr MP on stage at the Europa with Sir Van Morrison.

Calls for Poots to take Paisley action over Van chant

The government has cleared the way for Mike Nesbitt’s libel reform bill

NIO clears way for Stormont libel reform to protect free speech

UUP MLA Mike Nesbitt during a press conference at Stormont to give reaction to the finding the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has not recommended prosecution for anyone concerned in relation to the funeral of prominent Irish Republican Bobby Storey in west Belfast on 30 June 2020. The funeral attracted 2,000 mourners at a time when only 30 people were permitted at public gatherings. PA Photo. Picture date: Tuesday March 30 2021. See PA story ULSTER Coronavirus. Photo credit should read: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Mike Nesbitt tips Doug Beattie to be next leader of UUP

Mike Nesbitt in the chamber today; behind him is John Stewart, who moved the motion alongside Doug Beattie

Mike Nesbitt: ‘Conversion therapy debate shows why we can’t have unionist unity’

Jim Wilson, right, and Billy Hutchinson, second from left, at a 2013 meeting of the Unionist Forum. Mr Wilson says: "Myself and other selfless loyalists stood back to allow our politicians to take credit for this initiative, but enough is enough"

Jim Wilson: It is the working classes who have sought unionist unity

Vehicles disembarking at Larne Port

Mike Nesbitt: I warned about danger of Irish Sea border – and what Brexit would ...