Ian Paisley Junior: one scandal too many?

Will loyalty prevail over Paisley’s adventures and forgetfulness?

DUP MP Ian Paisley made an emotional apology to the House of Commons for failing to disclose two paid family holidays to Sri Lanka. Video: Parliamentlive.tv

Ian Paisley, who boasts that Donald Trump is a friend, has had a career littered with controversy. In 2008 he resigned as a junior minister in the Stormont Assembly over awkward dealings with a property dealer friend.

Then, he was simultaneously an MLA, a junior minister and a paid researcher for his father. There was a holiday home that Paisley said he had bought, but which remained under the name of the developer’s wife. It was an “administrative hiccup”, he explained.

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