UUP to vote tonight on Stormont exit

Senior members of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) will vote tonight on a leadership recommendation to walk away from the North's power-sharing government over claims the Provisional IRA (PIRA) still exists.

UUP leader Mike Nesbitt (pictured) has proposed the exit in response to a police assessment that structures of the supposedly defunct paramilitary organisation remain in place and some of its members were involved in a recent Belfast murder.