Lord Empey

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Peter Hain says Boris Johnson is working on a ‘not me Guv’ basis. File photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
UK Brexit proposals ‘unworkable and unenforceable’

The British government’s Brexit proposals are “unworkable and unenforceable”, the North’s former secretary of state, Peter Hain, has said. Speaking (...)

(From left) Lord Empey, Robin Swann and Steve Aiken of the Ulster Unionist Party outside Stormont Parliment buildings. Photograph: PA
Brexit: UUP suggests proposals to replace Irish backstop

A former Ulster Unionist Party leader has proposed the creation of a new North-South ministerial body as a means of monitoring and regulating trade ac(...)

DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson said: ‘We need to get to a place where we agree that there were things that went wrong and should never have happened and we move on’. File photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Legacy of Troubles brings ‘real challenges’ to island relations – Donaldson

Relationships on the island face “real challenges” if the legacy of the Troubles is not dealt with as people commemorate “very difficult centenaries” (...)

Lord Empey wants the British government to use its veto on the UN Security Council to gain commitments about compensation before it would agree to the unfreezing of the Libyan assets in England.
IRA victims not entitled to compensation, insists senior Libyan diplomat

Any attempt by the British government to use frozen Libyan assets in England to compensate IRA victims of weapons and explosives smuggled into Norther(...)

Closed for business: The sun sets over Stormont. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images
Newton Emerson: Unionists’ suspicions do not match reality

Gerry Adams isn’t one to let a good crisis go to waste. So adept is the Sinn Féin president at milking them, he has often been accused of causing the(...)

Senator Catherine Noone as she addresses the morning session of the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly with on left Aengus O Snodaigh TD and on right Margaret Murphy O Mahony TD. Photograph: Maxwell’s
Irish and British politicians voice opposition to ‘hard Border’

Parliamentarians drawn from across Britain and Ireland have voiced strong opposition to any reimposition of a ‘hard border’ between the North and Sout(...)

A man strolls past a mural depicting a paramilitary fighter in the Shankill Road in Belfast. File photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters
Paramilitaries active on large scale in North, study shows

Newly compiled figures reveal the scale of ongoing paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland, with 1,100 bombings and shootings over the last decade, (...)