Sam McBride(@SJAMcBride):After the Jeffrey Donaldson scandal, there is the growing likelihood that next year’s Assembly election will deliver the most incoherent unionist representation in Northern Ireland’s history, with an emaciated DUP too weak to sustain the Executive.

Sam McBride

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Northern Ireland Editor of the Belfast Telegraph & Sunday Independent. Author of Burned: The Inside Story of the Cash-for-Ash Scandal. Any views mine alone.

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Sam McBride@SJAMcBride

2026.07.05 08:07

After the Jeffrey Donaldson scandal, there is the growing likelihood that next year’s Assembly election will deliver the most incoherent unionist representation in Northern Ireland’s history, with an emaciated DUP too weak to sustain the Executive.