Doug Beattie sets UUP sights on first minister job as he insists ‘we are back’

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Subscribe              Oct 10, 2021                 Doug Beattie sets UUP sights on first minister job as he insists 'we are back'           Ulster Unionist leader Doug Beattie has insisted the party is back and can once again take the first minister's job at Stormont.                 VIDEO: Ex Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith says the Northern Ireland Protocol should be replaced   In this clip, Iain Duncan Smith says that the Irish Sea border is not working.           Ben Lowry: Echoes of 2019, as Boris Johnson fails to proclaim his unionism in his keynote speech to Tories   There was an interesting symmetry to the Conservative conference this week and the last one that the party held, two years previously almost to the day.               Ben Lowry: Echoes of 2019, as Boris Johnson fails to proclaim his unionism in his keynote speech to Tories   There was an interesting symmetry to the Conservative conference this week and the last one that the party held, two years previously almost to the day.                             Many countries worldwide have been partitioned and do not see a need for commemorations — they accept partition and live in the present           A letter from Robin Bury:                   The Irish government seems to disapprove of President Higgins' Northern Ireland centenary service snub   News Letter editorial of Saturday October 9 2021:       Henry McDonald: Colm Toibin spurns misty-eyed guff about a 'New Ireland'   If you had read the headline in The Irish Times this week introducing a long essay by the novelist Colm Toibin you could be forgiven for thinking that here was just one more anti-Brexit, anti-British and by association anti-unionist tirade from yet another southern public intellectual.                     View more news

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