Donaldson 'manipulating UUP'

The Ulster Unionist Party is being manipulated by anti-agreement MP Jeffrey Donaldson as he prepares to challenge David Trimble’s leadership, it was claimed today.

As delegates prepared for a crunch meeting of the party’s 860-strong ruling council next week, senior party member and former mayor of Lisburn Jim Dillon said the UUP was now split across Northern Ireland.