Alliance Party leader to ask about UUP sanctions
The leader of the North's Alliance Party has said he will ask the Independent Monitoring Commission whether it will be recommending sanctions against the Ulster Unionist Party.
Earlier this week, the UUP allowed Progressive Unionist Party leader David Irvine to join its grouping in the Stormont Assembly.
The PUP is the political wing of the Ulster Volunteer Force, which is still deeply involved in paramilitarism, drug-dealing, extortion and violence.
The IMC has previously recommended sanctions against Sinn Féin due to on-going IRA activity.
Alliance Party leader David Ford has said he will now ask the body whether the UUP will be similarly punished for on-going UVF activity.
