Trimble faces prospect of hardline Assembly team

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble was today facing the prospect of a more hardline Assembly team as some of his harshest critics in the party were selected as candidates for the next Stormont election.

As the North’s political institutions teetered on the brink of collapse over allegations that the IRA infiltrated the Northern Ireland Office, hardline MP David Burnside and UUP honorary secretary Arlene Foster were chosen as candidates in the constituencies of South Antrim and Fermanagh and South Tyrone.