First Minister Peter Robinson loses seat

The North’s First Minister Peter Robinson sensationally lost his Westminster seat for east Belfast today.

First Minister Peter Robinson loses seat

The North’s First Minister Peter Robinson sensationally lost his Westminster seat for east Belfast today.

The MP, whose wife Iris quit in disgrace as MP for Strangford after admitting to an affair, was beaten by the Alliance Party’s Naomi Long, the lord mayor of Belfast, to leave Democratic Unionist Party supporters gasping in disbelief.

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