Strange bedfellows as the SDLP and UUP snuggle up
Can an unlikely mixed marriage of two battered parties revitalise the North’s tired old politics?
It was supposed to be an unremarkable Ulster Unionist Party conference. But but then politics in the North has always been iconoclastic and unpredictable, to put it mildly.
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