Pro-agreement UUP candidate backs Donaldson plan

Anti-Good Friday Agreement Ulster Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson’s six-point plan for party unity and decommissioning was tonight endorsed by a prominent pro-Agreement member of the UUP.

Ulster Unionist vice chairman James Cooper claimed the plan which backs devolution but calls for the expulsion of Sinn Fein ministers from office if there is no IRA disarmament by the end of the decommissioning body’s mandate in June was ‘‘constructive’’.