Opposition

Diametrically opposed parties are permanently in government at Stormont as long as they secure a quota of votes

Letter: No point being in opposition in a one party state

Ulster Unionist leader won't rule out opposition - saying a return to the Executive is dependent on the Programme for Government. Pic: David Thompson

Beattie: Executive return is conditional

The DUP should consider the benefits of choosing not to go into the executive, and instead be the assembly’s principal opposition, if Stormont returns, writes David Hoey

David Hoey: Opposition is noble, and DUP should consider the benefits

Belfast Docks, where implementation of Windsor Framework trade checks began last month.

Unionist opposition to Protocol 'entrenched'

Sinn Fein Leader Mary Lou McDonald, former leader Gerry Adams and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill at the funeral of the IRA terrorist Bobby Storey in west Belfast. The lockdown breaching funeral, which happened without any sanction, showed that Sinn Fein is allowed to have special influence. Photo Pacemaker Press

Ben Lowry: Unionists have not been alone in not wanting Sinn Fein at the helm

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

Lttle faith in Keir Starmer OR Rishi Sunak when it comes to handling Brexit

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has urged health leaders at an emergency meeting to take "bold and radical" action to alleviate the winter crisis in the NHS. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

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The DUP is unwilling to form an executive until the protocol is resolved

Letters: Unionism must unite against NI Protocol

The DUP’s Paul Givan and Carla Lockhart after meeting with the NI secretary

DUP pair set out abortion opposition 'forcibly' in meeting with NI Secretary

Kwasi Kwarteng has cut his trip to the International Monetary Fund in Washington, USA short.

Will Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announce a budget U-turn today?

Mr Ellis suggests flying the Irish and British flags jointly

My vision for NI’s future as a lapsed Protestant who supports Irish unity

Letter to the editor

The DUP are more comfortable behaving as if they are in opposition

Demonstrators (left to right) Fidelma O'Kane, Cormac McAleer and Emmet McAleer take part in a protest outside the Crown Estate Commission, in central London, against gold mining in the Sperrin mountains in County Tyrone, in Northern Ireland.

Residents opposed to NI gold mine take protest to London

‘If your telescope is really good, perhaps you’ll even make out the swirling clouds of Jupiter’s upper atmosphere’ (Photo: JPL/NASA/Getty Images

Jupiter will be in 'opposition' this week and will appear bright in the sky - he...

The 98th Regiment of Foot at the attack on Chin-Kiang-Foo (Zhenjiang), 21 July 1842, effecting the defeat of the Manchu government. Watercolour by military illustrator Richard Simkin (1840–1926). Picture: Wikimedia Commons

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: Opposition to opium trade heard at Belfast meeting

Jean McKillen, left, and Georgina Graham keep the pot warm for visitors to Unlimited Refills, a Christian coffee shop which opened in October 1989 on Great Victoria Street in Belfast to combat “the boozy pubs and clubs of the city's 'Golden Mile'”. Stephen Gilmore, a member of the organising committee behind Unlimited Refills told the News Letter: “We are offering people a better environment than the pub, one free of the influence of alcohol and one promoting a friendly atmosphere.” Picture: News Letter archives

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: From the News Letter of November 1835
An invitation to Sir Robert Peel

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MPs have voted against maintaining food hygiene and animal welfare standards in ...

News Letter editorial

Labour’s struggles are not good for democracy in UK