UUP

General image of a megaphone (Creative Commons: mckinney75402). The use of these devices is going to be tightly regulated in Belfast, if new rules are adopted

Belfast unionist questions plan to restrict the right to protest and preach

Dr Esmond Birnie

'Chancellor's tax cuts likely to get wiped out by rising costs and inflation'

Letters to editor

Letter: It will be disaster if DUP returns to Stormont without seven tests met

The Twelfth of July parade in Belfast in 2022. Bands and Orange men form up at Carlisle Circus in north Belfast for the main Belfast.
Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Orangeman and former Lord Mayor backs current Twelfth route

Belfast City Council's policy on dual language street signs is under increased scrutiny from unionist parties on the council after News Letter revelations.
Photo: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press.

UUP demand review of "undemocratic" Irish signs policy over equality advice row

The ongoing abstention from Stormont is not only harming prosperity, opportunity and wellbeing but pushing a negative unionism

UUP deputy leader: Unionists are saying a resounding yes to Stormont

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson (DUP), Billy Hutchinson (Progressive Party), Doug Beattie (UUP) and Jim Allister (TUV) at Stormont on Ulster Day 2021. They all agreed that implementation of the Irish Sea border has the effect of subjugating the Acts of Union. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Jamie Bryson: I concur with the News Letter editorial about Stormont

Letters to editor

Letter: Ireland’s anti-British mindset has long been evident

Parents with empty prams in front of the Houses of Parliament in London earlier this week, in support of Israeli families who have had children taken hostage by Hamas in the October 7 terror attacks. Peace can be achieved in the Middle East if all those involved are prepared to put their children first, writes UUP MLA Robbie Butler

Letter: Israeli and Palestinian - all children deserve to live in peace

Rishi Sunak described a DUP proposal for an East-West Council as having 'considerable merit; and praised Sir Jeffrey’s conference speech. If this wasn’t choreography, it was taking on that appearance. Photo: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Owen Polley: DUP and UUP need to be honest that border threatens our place in UK

Letters to editor

Letter: SF attitude towards Hamas attacks raises questions for unionist leaders

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

Gerry Carroll - People Before Profit at the Northern Ireland Assembly Election Count at Titanic Exhibition Centre, Belfast

Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Gerry Carroll says People Before Profit stands in solidarity with Palestine

Dr Stephen Farry

North Down Orangemen call on unionist parties to drop rivalries in next election

Loyalist activist Jamie Bryson and DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson

Donaldson hits back hard at Bryson: 'We are the main voice of unionism''

Doug Beattie, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, attended the Conservative Party conference on Monday and observed that the conference 'isn’t talking about Northern Ireland, this conference isn’t focused on the Windsor Framework'

UUP leader Doug Beattie ‘pessimistic’ over Stormont assembly return

Jamie Bryson told the leaders of the DUP, UUP and TUV that a return to Stormont would 'ignite significant instability and, without any doubt, precipitate a return to mass street protests'

Loyalists will hold mass street protests if Stormont returns, warns Jamie Bryson
The DUP has been told that loyalists will hold mass street protests if the party returns to Stormont while the Northern Ireland Protocol is still in place.

Letters to editor

Letter: If unionists go back into Stormont they will hand over victory

Mike Nesbitt

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

Doug Beattie

Beattie says rumours of Windsor Framework power-grab 'vindicate my stance'

Brian Faulkner and his wife

Former seaside home of late UUP leader Lord Faulkner up for sale for £1,475,000

General views of green and blue algae deposits at Lough Neagh

Michelle O'Neill should have shown more leadership over Lough Neagh, says MLA

‘Highlands’, an 1840-built property

Former family home of the last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland for sale

European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic and Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris (right), at the New Forge complex in Belfast following the announcement of a funding plan will see 1.14 billion euro received through PeacePlus - with the UK supplying around 85 per cent of the funds

Letter: UK supplies majority of peace money

Perhaps Sir Jeffrey Donaldson and Doug Beattie can explain how unionism benefits by establishing a Stormont executive that is obligated to enact NI Protocol legislation that is incompatible with the Act of Union?

Letter: DUP and UUP seem focused on getting back with Sinn Fein

Letters to editor

Letter: Unionists by yielding to republican demands maintain appeasement ethos

Letters to editor

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

Doug Beattie: no confidence in PSNI leadership

Doug Beattie calls for entire PSNI leadership to be investigated
UUP leader Doug Beattie has said that although he has no confidence in the leadership of the PSNI following the catastrophic data breach and fresh revelations that officers were unlawfully disciplined to placate Sinn Fein, the resignation of Simon Byrne might not fix wider leadership issues.

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

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

Unionists ask Assembly to support installation of Centenary Stone

UUP leader Doug Beattie said Steve Baker was being brutally honest when he said that the Windsor Framework would not be reopened.
Photo: Liam McBurney

UUP says government just ‘brutally honest’ on Windsor Framework

The Electorial Commission has published the finances for Stormont's largest five parties for 2022.
Photo: Liam McBurney

Finances of Stormont's big five political parties published

The DUP and UUP have expressed concern after Asda became the first supermarket in NI to introduce 'Not for EU' labelling on food as required under the Windsor Framework.

Unionist concern as Asda begins ‘Protocol labelling’ of food

There are questions for Downing Street to answer, writes David McNarry

Letter: Unionists hold strong negotiating cards - but there are wild cards

UUP leader Doug Beattie said the House of Lords report on the Windsor Framework agreed that the boycott of Stormont had achieved nothing.

Beattie ‘surrendering’ over changing Windsor Framework

The Casement Park site has not been in use since 2013. Pic: Pacemaker

UUP call for Executive reform to tackle spiralling costs of Casement Park

A effigy of Sinn Fein Vice President Michelle O'Neill on the Eastvale Avenue bonfire in Dungannon, on the Eleventh night Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

UUP leader Doug Beattie - Actions of some over Twelfth bring ‘shame on us all’

People watch as the pyre with a boat on top is set alight in Moygashel near Dungannon, Co Tyrone. Picture date: Saturday July 8, 2023. Photo credit: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Every restriction on loyalist culture is unfinished business: Jamie Bryson

Ireland’s Simon Coveney and UK’s Julian Smith launch New Decade, 2020. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Letter: UUP did not sign New Decade New Approach deal

Ulster University's Magee campus in Londonderry is receive £38m from the Irish government for a new teaching and student-services building

Letter: Magee cash shows Dublin’s contempt for unionism

James Cleverly in Belfast in 2019. Now foreign secretary, he has indicated that ‘Not for EU’ labels would be needed for food products across the UK. But DEFRA advice suggested that, for the first year at least, labelling will be required exclusively for goods coming to NI. Requirements for ‘box labels and retail premises signage’ will only ever apply here. A subtlety that was not part of the government’s spin. Picture: Arthur Allison / Pacemaker Press.

Owen Polley: We shouldn’t forget the magnitude of what has been imposed on NI

The T’ Chulainn Centre in South Armagh

Call made for SDLP to make its stance clear on republican commemoration event

Letters to editor

Letter: We have been betrayed by Britain, and failed by unionism

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

Doug Beattie and Sir Jeffrey Donaldson must settle all differences. If the unionist parties do not join together we face being overrun by Sinn Fein. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Letter: Unionists need to joint together in one party before it is too late

Letters to editor

Letter: It's misleading to compare all unionist votes to one nationalist party

Sinn Fein Vice President Michelle O'Neill voting in Coalisland last week. Her party got 54,827 votes less than unionists but the media has gleefully concentrated on the fact Sinn Fein has most seats. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Letter: The unionist voting bloc is bigger than the provisional republican one

UUP deputy leader Robbie Butler

Breach of confidentiality harms public appointments process: Robbie Butler

Owen Polley: Startlingly poor poll results for unionism call for a rethink

Owen Polley: Startlingly poor poll results for unionism call for a rethink

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

DUP councillor Clement Cuthbertson who has been elected in Mid Ulster, pictured with DUP MP Carla Lockhart

Sinn Fein and DUP occupy 75% of seats in Mid Ulster council following election

DUP councillor Carl McClean

Unionism threatened by 'shredding' of votes, says North Down councillor

Lilian Seenoi-Barr with party colleagues, relatives and SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood

Sinn Fein win highest amount of seats ever in Derry & Strabane council

Barry McElduff is back on Fermanagh and Omagh District Council

Election 2023: Sinn Fein tidal wave leaves it in total control of council

Counting has been finalised in the Causeway Coast and Glens Council

TUV, Alliance and Sinn Fein make gains in Causeway Coast and Glens