Jeffrey Donaldson has ‘no regrets’ on walk out from Good Friday Agreement negotiations

Mr Donaldson refused to back a deal that proposed the early release of paramilitary prisoners but did not include firm commitments to decommission terrorist weapons.

Jeffrey Donaldson photographed at the gates of Hillsborough Castle (Brian Lawless/PA)

Twenty-five years after walking out of the Good Friday Agreement peace talks, Jeffrey Donaldson has insisted he has no regrets.

The current DUP leader was a senior member of the Ulster Unionists’ negotiating delegation back in 1998.