And another thing... (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
... the UUP for many years accepted the Tory whip at Manchester, a practice that was resurrected under David Trimble’s leadership (but not with the unalloyed enthusiasm of all his MPs). So this agreement is simply an modest extension to the partnership. I’m not entirely sure whether the UUP still take the Tory whip, but since it only has one MP these days, it wouldn’t make much difference....
RecessMonkey (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
... speakers including Tory heavyweights - former leader Iain Duncan Smith, leadership challenger David Davis and Shadow Local Government Minister Eric Pickles. Other senior Tories on Blaney’s Young Britons’ Foundation parliamentary council include David Trimble, Cecil Parkinson, Shadow Defence Secretary Liam Fox, Bill Cash and Greg Hands. And in 1998 Blaney was asked by then Leader...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
THE MP who defeated David Trimble at the last Westminster election said the DUP was working most effectively to ease the plight of ordinary people in the current economic downturn.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
... compared Sinn Féin and its leader Gerry Adams's behaviour with former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble's behaviour when he was first minister and in the face of political crises and internal party difficulties, engaged in "walkouts and boycotts"."It is now Sinn Féin where the divisions are appearing. There are some realists in Sinn Féin who know they can't turn back the clock....
Redemption's Son (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
John Hume, drawing parallels with the South African apartheid regime, once stated that what Ireland needed was a unionist de Klerk; to which David Trimble responded saying simply that it was not a unionist de Klerk that was much needed, but a nationalist one in the context of the British Isles. Nationalists and republicans have both attempted to compare their pre-agreement 'struggle'...
