Breaking the Deadlock - A Constitutional Update
The Centre for the Union legal working group has continued working, building on our previous reports and publications, alongside our...
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Sue Webber MSP
- Sep 18, 2023
Humza Yousaf: 'Chief Mammy's Boy' | Sue Webber MSP
If Humza Yousaf’s Programme for Government was supposed to be an object lesson in expectation management, on that measure alone it was a...
Cllr Andrew Clarke
- Aug 27, 2023
Unionism… Just More Fun! | Cllr Andrew Clarke
Houston, Shanghai, Istanbul … and Larne. In each of these places, the World Athletics Association has awarded ‘Elite’ status to a...
Ian Paisley MP
- Aug 8, 2023
Strengthening the Union with UK-US Relations | Ian Paisley MP
Today in Westminster Hall, I attended the Transatlantic capital to capital exchange where 26 members of Congress, including the House...
Cllr Brendan Chilton
- Jul 24, 2023
The Labour Party case for defending the Union of the UK | Cllr Brendan Chilton
In many ways Labour was born of the union of the United Kingdom. The first Leader of the Party was Keir Hardie, born in Lanarkshire,...
Baroness Hoey of Lylehill and Rathlin
- Jul 20, 2023
Postal Packets Regulations change status of Northern Ireland | Baroness Hoey
This week has seen a total disaster on the Second Delegated Legislation Committee on the Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments)...
Doug Beattie MLA
- Jul 19, 2023
It is time Unionists put the United Kingdom first | Doug Beattie MLA
The United Kingdom is a kingdom of four nations; England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Everyone who professes to support the...
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP
- Jul 19, 2023
Unionists want a fair deal | Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP
The ball is in the Government’s court. The DUP has a mandate to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly on a basis that unionists as well...
Ian Paisley MP
- Jul 18, 2023
Postal Packets Regulations deepen Irish Sea border | Ian Paisley MP
The Government for some time now have been deceitful to the people of Northern Ireland, that the Windsor Framework and these regulations...
Mark Francois MP
- Jul 18, 2023
"What a Shambles" | Mark Francois MP
It seems Ben Wallace was wrong, we are like Amazon after all. If the Whips don’t like independent-minded MPs on a Committee, they just...
Steven Barrett
- Jul 18, 2023
Postal Packets Regulations create a "clear border" | Steven Barrett
It is not possible, as law, to say that the Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023 are of no great importance. Or to...
Jamie Bryson
- Jul 17, 2023
Briefing: Postal Packets Regulations, 2023
The Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2023 will be considered by a Second Delegated Legislation Committee in the...
Jamie Bryson
- Jun 30, 2023
There can be no power-sharing until balance is restored | Jamie Bryson
It is trite to point out that with every day that passes, it is another day in which Northern Ireland remains subjugated as a colony of...
Jamie Bryson
- May 3, 2023
Unionist opposition to the Framework is hardening | Jamie Bryson
The latest polling shows that over 62% of unionists (across all unionist parties) remain steadfast that there should be no return to...
John Hoey
- May 1, 2023
A Grassroots look at the Belfast Agreement 25 years on | John Hoey
The Belfast / Good Friday Agreement provided a unique opportunity for those of us not involved in politics, government, or armed...
Douglas Lumsden MSP
- Apr 19, 2023
What next for Scotland under First Minister Yousaf? | Douglas Lumsden MSP
Slightly less than a month ago we witnessed the election of Humza Yousaf as Scotland’s new first minister. So, can we expect any change...
Ian Paisley MP
- Apr 19, 2023
Yes, the Northern Ireland Secretary has just paid tribute to Gerry Adams | Ian Paisley MP
Speaking at Queen’s University, Belfast yesterday, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Chris Heaton-Harris made this statement,...
Jamie Bryson
- Apr 18, 2023
A challenge to the NIO’s treatment of Unionists | Jamie Bryson
The NIO‘s treatment of the unionist community and the Union in recent years and months has been little short of appalling. This week at...
Gavin Robinson MP
- Apr 3, 2023
Vote splintering weakens Unionism | Gavin Robinson MP
At the last election some people argued that you can’t split the vote in a Proportional Representation election, they were left red faced...
Baroness Hoey of Lylehill and Rathlin
- Mar 30, 2023
My view on the Windsor Framework | Baroness Hoey
On Wednesday 29th March, four years on from when we were supposed to leave the European Union, we still find Northern Ireland trapped...
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