New political party predicted for 'disillusioned' unionists

A political movement will emerge to give voice to unionists opposed to the Democratic Unionists’ sharing of power with Sinn Féin in the North, a senior politician predicted today.

MEP Jim Allister – who quit the DUP in March over Ian Paisley’s decision to go into government with the republican party – said there was a hunger for an alternative to the current unionist parties.