DUP to take Trimble appeal to Lords

The Democratic Unionist Party will go to the House of Lords in Britain today to argue that David Trimble’s re-election as the North’s First Minister last year was invalid.

The North’s High Court has already rejected the argument. The anti-agreement DUP believes Mr Trimble’s re-election was invalid because the deadline for the vote had expired.

It has claimed that, under the rules of the Northern Assembly, a new First Minister should have been elected within six weeks of Mr Trimble’s initial resignation over the IRA’s failure to decommission its weapons.