Paisley issues peace process challenge

Pro-Good Friday Agreement Ulster Unionists were today challenged to point to any benefits for their supporters in the British and Irish Governments’ blueprint for the peace process.

As UUP officers gathered in Belfast to consider a bid by the anti-Agreement wing of the party to reconvene their ruling council to debate the Joint Declaration, the Rev Ian Paisley accused his rivals of negotiating away “a further raft of concessions” to republicans and nationalists.