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...Donaldson’s exit comes at a difficult time for unionism in Northern Ireland....
...But since Donaldson had been suspended pending the outcome of his criminal case, “he cannot be a candidate for the DUP”, Robinson told BBC Radio Ulster....
...But TUV leader Jim Allister said Donaldson’s exit “impacts unionism as a whole. This needs to be a cathartic moment.”...
...It was not immediately clear whether Donaldson would resign as an MP, a move which would trigger a by-election in his Lagan Valley constituency....
...The charges against Donaldson, 61, who resigned as leader of the Democratic Unionist party last month after being arrested and charged, included one act of gross indecency towards a child and nine counts...
...But the former UK official said it remained a political gamble. “Donaldson is basically saying to people: ‘We’ve got to do this, don’t blow it — if this unravels now, we really are sunk’.”...
...Yet it is BookTok that has shaken up the sometimes fusty literary world, turbocharging sales of authors such as Sarah J Maas, Colleen Hoover and Alice Oseman among younger readers....
...The DUP’s Brexit trade dispute was finally settled this week when MPs passed legislation to enact a deal that Donaldson hammered out in months of bilateral talks with Rishi Sunak’s government....
...Donaldson’s analysis is right as far it goes. A less generous interpretation of events, however, is that the DUP has been handed an excuse to escape the cul de sac into which it had backed itself....
...“Today is a good day for Northern Ireland,” Donaldson told reporters outside the chamber. “It is a day when we come together and take up all our responsibilities.”...
...Emerson notes that Donaldson even floated such a suggestion himself after the elections, and says there is a theoretical (if complex) path to achieve such an outcome if the DUP picked another unionist —...
...Andrew Muir of the Alliance Party summed up the frustration of other parties, telling Donaldson: “In the name of God, take a decision.”...
...After the vote, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson signalled he would back a recall of Stormont on Saturday ending a near two-year boycott by his party....
...“If [DUP leader Sir] Jeffrey Donaldson does not change his approach, then this sitting may well be the final one of this assembly,” she said....
...Sean Haughey, a lecturer at the University of Liverpool, says Donaldson “will not want to be bounced” into a deadline....
...But some UK officials were less optimistic that Donaldson would change course and agree to restore the regional institutions....
...The bank also named Colleen McCullum as chief audit executive, joining from United Community Bank....
...But Donaldson accepted the political fig leaf it offered, even at the risk of deepening splits within his party....
...Donaldson insisted the £3.3bn package was not enough....
...So it is that her character, Tashi Duncan, might seem a support act: loyal wife of tennis legend Art Donaldson, a collector of Grand Slams played by Mike Faist (a standout in Steven Spielberg’s West Side...
...Donaldson also suggested a workaround for the “unnecessary and unacceptable” customs border drawn in the Irish Sea that has so enraged his party....
...The first politician is Jeffrey Donaldson, the party’s leader and a relative moderate by the DUP’s standards....
...Step DUP | Northern Ireland’s biggest pro-UK party is searching for a candidate for Jeffrey Donaldson’s Westminster seat ahead of the next general election after the former leader was charged with historical...
...London has made clear that a separate deal on a financial package for the region depends on Stormont being restored....
...“There’s still a way to go,” Donaldson told reporters after the first all-party talks with Heaton-Harris since July....
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