UUP to ‘reject any blueprint for peace’

DAVID TRIMBLE’S Ulster Unionist Party would have rejected the British and Irish Governments’ blueprint for future progress in the peace process, it was claimed yesterday.

As British Prime Minister Tony Blair prepares for talks with Taoiseach Bertie Ahern next Tuesday following the postponement of elections to the Stormont Assembly, London and Dublin were warned that the internal difficulties facing David Trimble are much greater than they anticipated.

Hardline Ulster Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson described the joint declaration as a “Sinn Féin charter” and said that there was no way the party’s ruling executive would support the document.