Party members told their leader, who had been in the role for less than three weeks, that they had lost confidence in him after a deal was reached over Irish language legislation

British government agrees to legislate on Irish language if Stormont fails to do so

DUP will accept ‘no conditions’ for the nomination of first minister as Arlene Foster is poised to officially step down at lunchtime today

Edwin Poots, the new DUP party leader, does not want to be First Minister in the Assembly, and his nominee Paul Givan’s main qualification for the job would appear to be that he is a Poots sidekick of long standing

The DUP is dialling up the rhetoric over the post-Brexit arrangement as it deals with a growing split within its ranks – and just as Boris Johnson comes under intense pressure from Joe Biden to make the protocol stick

The longtime ally of DUP leader Edwin Poots will take up the role when Arlene Foster steps down later this week

The new DUP leader Edwin Poots may pick the former communities minister Paul Givan for the top post, having already turned it down himself

The party’s new leader has endured a brutally tough start to his tenure, with resignations and walkouts the order of the day

A well-placed source in the party claims its new leader could steer it towards a calamitous result in next year’s Assembly elections

Last week's verdict that the ten people killed by the British Army in August 1971 were innocent of wrongdoing was a reminder that in the North, some things just don’t go away

Edwin Poots is caught between a rock and a hard place on the Northern Ireland protocol – and his party could find itself marginalised as a consequence

There is a long and pernicious assumption that unionists just need to realise that they are actually Irish and that a united Ireland will then fall into place

Edwin Poots’s father was a founding member of the DUP. Jeffrey Donaldson followed his father into the ranks of the UDR and jumped to the DUP from the UUP. Both are members of the Orange Order and don‘t hide their religious beliefs. But can either man come up with a viable vision for the future of the North?

No matter who takes over as leader of the DUP, North-South relations need engagement on all sides as we get to grips with the impacts of Covid-19 and Brexit

The fall of the DUP leader is a cautionary tale of hubris, myopia and stubbornness

Already on the wrong side of the Brexit deal and of a more tolerant society, the party cannot be unaware that this is more of a crisis moment than a crossroads

While the DUP leader was no stranger to controversy even before Brexit, it is her disastrous handling of that issue that will dominate her legacy

A united Ireland will not simply see the North assimilate into today’s Ireland, it will take a lot of work to build trust and co-operation, but it can be done

UK’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland says the move to invoke Article 16 last January, which was quickly reversed, contributed to recent violence

Thanks to a shameful and dangerous lack of political leadership, mistrust and division is rife in unionism – to everybody’s cost