Tag: DUP

Arlene Foster to Quit as Northern Ireland First Minister and DUP Leader

Arlene Foster said on Wednesday that she will quit as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and first minister of Northern Ireland. She said she will leave her DUP role on May 28 and resign as first minister at the end of June. Foster, who has been first minister for five years, had faced…


Disorder in Northern Ireland for Second Night Amid Brexit Tensions

Cars were set alight and masked people pelted a police van with petrol bombs on Saturday on the second successive evening of disorder in pro-British parts of Northern Ireland amid rising post-Brexit tensions in the region. Many pro-British unionists fiercely oppose the new trade barriers introduced between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United…