UUP and SDLP form new ‘partnership’ in Northern Ireland
Unionist party leader Mike Nesbitt says alliance will work against DUP and Sinn Féin
![UUP leader Mike Nesbitt told his party conference Saturday: “Vote me, you get [SDLP leader] Colum [Eastwood]. Vote Colum, you get me”. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire](/polopoly_fs/1.2839970.1477142905!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_300_160/image.jpg "UUP leader Mike Nesbitt told his party conference Saturday: “Vote me, you get [SDLP leader] Colum [Eastwood]. Vote Colum, you get me”. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire")
UUP leader Mike Nesbitt told his party conference Saturday: “Vote me, you get [SDLP leader] Colum [Eastwood]. Vote Colum, you get me”. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Mike Nesbitt has proposed working “partnership” with the SDLP in order to create “middle ground politics” as an alternative to the DUP and Sinn Féin.
Demonstrating that ambition to forge a new relationship with nationalists, Mr Nesbitt invited the SDLP leader Colum Eastwood to address the UUP annual conference at the Ramada Hotel in south Belfast on Saturday.