In 2010, there were more than 1,000 potential coalition options. Here’s how to make friends in 2015.
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Most UK parties don’t campaign hard in Northern Ireland, and some don’t show up at all. It might be better that way for now.
Surprise! Almost everyone supports gay marriage (even UKIP voters).
Everyone is assuming that the DUP would do a deal with the Tories after the election if the option arose. Everyone may be wrong.
After winning Fermanagh and South Tyrone by four votes in 2010, Sinn Fein won’t let it go without a fight.
The DUP knows what it wants and it plans to get it in the event of a hun parliament.
Northern Ireland’s biggest party could be a kingmaker in the 2015 Westminster election. And keeping tight control over abortion could be a condition of support.
At least one party in the UK’s most overlooked region could make or break this election. It’s time to swot up on the local scene.
A beginner’s guide to the politics of the UK’s most overlooked parliamentary parties.
By any standards, the murder of Jean McConville stands out during the troubles. She was a mother of 10 with no connection to the violence. She was killed by the IRA, who did not admit to the killing but…
Northern Ireland’s first minister, Peter Robinson, threatened to resign over the issue of secret pardons granted to IRA fugitives, referred to as “on the runs” (OTRs), during the negotiation of the Good…
It’s an all-too familiar scenario: the Northern Ireland Assembly in “crisis”, rocked by the latest high-profile scandal that sends elected representatives into meltdown, scrambling for superlatives to…
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