Unionists may quit over peace plans

SENIOR Ulster Unionists have warned they may quit the party over British and Irish Government plans for the peace process because they undermine basic unionist principles, it was claimed yesterday.

UUP honorary secretary Arlene Foster brushed off claims by former Stormont minister Michael McGimpsey that anti-Good Friday Agreement unionists are blackmailing the party by threatening to leave if their ruling council later this month does not reject the document. On

Saturday, Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Donaldson said he would have to walk out of the party if the 900-member Ulster Unionist Council failed to reject on June 16 London and Dublin’s proposals for the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement.