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Senior unionist voices concern over Tory link
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| Last Edited | New Jerusalem Dec 09, 2008 04:52am |
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| News Date | Tuesday, December 9, 2008 10:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A senior Ulster Unionist last night voiced unease over his party’s link-up with Conservatives to fight future elections.
Former Assembly member Ian Adamson said the relationship historically between the two parties had never been completely happy.
The Belfast councillor, whose family tradition is from the political left — his father John was in the old NI Labour Party — said: “It’s a broad church in the Ulster Unionist Party and there are people who are of a more socialist bent than the conservative, liberal view.
“The whole history of the Conservative Party in Northern Ireland has not been a good one and whether we would continue to attract unionists from certain areas of east Belfast, or the Shankill, would be in doubt.”
Mr Adamson, who is secretary of the UU group in City Hall, said at last a British party was attempting to play a more significant role in NI politics, but whether it would prove positive for the UUP “remains to be seen”.
The Tory tie-up, still to be finalised by a joint committee yet to be established, won massive support at the party’s weekend annual conference but there is an undercurrent of disquiet.
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