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...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....
...On Friday, Debra Crew, in charge only since June, had to admit that drinks group Diageo had an inventory problem in its fastest-growing region, Latin America and Caribbean (LAC)....
...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’.”...
...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.”...
...Debra O’Donnell, 53 a former pre-school teacher wearing a T-shirt saying “Jesus is my saviour, Trump is my president”, lamented high inflation and rampant immigration, and that the US was losing its “boundaries...
...This led to a slump in sales of more than 20 per cent in Latin America. Analysts were unimpressed by Diageo chief executive Debra Crew’s initial handling of the warning....
...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 —...
...Diageo boss Debra Crew has vowed to get the drinks business back on track after a “perfect storm” in Latin America and customers trading down to cheaper spirits in the US pushed down profits....
...Andrew Muir of the Alliance Party summed up the frustration of other parties, telling Donaldson: “In the name of God, take a decision.”...
...“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....
...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....
...Diageo’s new chief executive Debra Crew has taken up the position a month earlier than expected after the company said outgoing leader Sir Ivan Menezes was in hospital recovering from emergency surgery....
...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....
...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....
...“Macroeconomic pressures have worsened and that caused lower consumption and really more consumer downtrading than what the team was expecting,” said chief executive Debra Crew, addressing the slump in Latin...
...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....
...Amid the dispute, Diageo appointed its new chief executive Debra Crew, following the death of her predecessor Ivan Menezes in June....
...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...
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