Cancer op to poll win: New DUP leader Poots has remarkable start to 2021

Stormont Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots, with a pony at Ashleigh Massey’s farm near Ballygowan (David Young/PA)

Just months after undergoing a major cancer operation, Edwin Poots has completed a remarkable political comeback by being elected the DUP’s new leader.

The Stormont Agriculture minister won over the party electorate with his “strength and experience to lead” strapline.