Election Focus – SDLP
When Margaret Ritchie won the leadership of the SDLP in February, she said: “I have an organisational plan and an agenda for change that will make us stronger.”
Ed Jacobs
Ed writes on devolved and local government. He works as a political consultant at the only Northern based consultancy, The Public Affairs Company. Ed has previously helped establish and run a student news website therundown.co.uk.
Election Focus – TUV
In 2007, Jim Allister, then one of the DUP’s MEP’s resigned from the party in protest over his parties’ agreement to form a coalition government with Sinn Fein.
The Election Week Outside Westminster
The latest from the campaign trail in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Where they stand – Devolution
For the first time, the general election could result in different parties, each with competing visions, leading each government in the devolved nations.
Election Focus – Sinn Fein
Sinn Fein remain committed to its policy of not taking its seats in Westminster, seeing the 2010 campaign as a springbroad for next year’s Stormont elections.
Election Focus – Alliance Party
David Ford is Northern Ireland’s first justice minister since Westminster took back control of policing powers from the previous Stormont government in 1972.
The Tories get it all wrong on Northern Ireland
Alliance party leader David Ford called the Tory/UUP pact a “sham marriage”; today’s manifesto commitments on Northern Ireland represent sham policy.
Election Focus – Plaid Cymru
With Plaid Cymru in partial control of the Assembly Government, Wales is a country now largely red with increasing shades of green.
Real IRA car bomb timed to disrupt policing and justice transfer
The Real IRA has claimed responsibility for a car bomb which exploded at 12:20 this morning outside Northern Ireland headquarters.
The election week outside Westminster
As the election campaign kicks off, the very latest from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.