Edwin Poots elected as new DUP leader

Edwin Poots won by a razor-thin 19 votes to 17 in the poll carried out within the party’s 36-strong electoral college.

Edwin Poots is the new DUP leader.

Edwin Poots has been elected as the new leader of the Democratic Unionist Party.

Stormont Agriculture Minister Mr Poots was vying with the party’s Westminster leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson to replace Arlene Foster, who announced her resignation last month.