Strangford assembly member David McNarry is set to face disciplinary action by the Ulster Unionist Party.

How one phone call rang the changes at the UUP

The Ulster Unionist leader Tom Elliott writes to party members to reassure them about the nature of talks with the DUP.

Lets be frank, up till now Alex Salmond has had the run of the public subsiy theme park that is Scottish politics. There's no serrious chanlanger in his own party or any of the other Scottish branches of supposed Unionist parties. But now the Westminster machine has opened one weary eye and focused on him. It may be that SNP strategists had the opening moves worked out and counter moves antic...

There’s much chatter in Westminster today about the fact that George Osborne is chairing the Cabinet committee on Scotland. Osborne is, of course, the Conservatives’ chief electoral strategist as well as the Chancellor of Exchequer. This has led to some suggestions that he wouldn’t be too upset by a referendum defeat that would make it an awful lot easier for the Tories to win a ...

Peter Robinson believed a war could break out over the IRA murder of a unionist politician, government archives from 1981 reveal.

The Ulster Unionist leader Tom Elliott says that accepting the Tory suggestion that his party disband would have been a betrayal of its voters and led to further splits.

In politics, as in other walks of life, labels matter. By accident or design, for good or for ill, they shape our identity — sometimes in our own eyes, but just as importantly in the eyes of others. For all of us, our identity starts with where we belong. For my part I am a

David Montgomery, who has died aged 84 of a brain haemorrhage, was one of the most prominent historians in the US and the model of a scholar-activist. Along with the late Herbert Gutman, he was the most influential practitioner of the "new labour history", which moved the study of workers away from the institutional history of unions to the workplace struggles, political ideologies and cultur...

An Ulster Unionist candidate has said the party should consider disbanding.