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1 day ago · Easter Rising. James Connolly ( Irish: Séamas Ó Conghaile; [1] 5 June 1868 – 12 May 1916) was an Irish republican, socialist, and trade union leader, executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland. He remains an important figure both for the Irish labour movement and for Irish republicanism. He became an ...
2 days ago · Scottish Labour, officially the Scottish Labour Party, [10] is the part of the UK Labour Party active in Scotland. Ideologically social democratic and unionist, it holds 22 of 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament and 2 of 59 Scottish seats in the House of Commons. It is represented by 262 of the 1,227 local councillors across Scotland.
May 16, 2024 · It is clear to everyone that the SNP is in its “final death throes”, Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt has claimed, as she urged the party to prepare for a unionist government in Scotland ...
May 25, 2024 · Unionist postcard (1912) Unionism in Ireland is a political tradition that professes loyalty to the crown of the United Kingdom and to the union it represents with England, Scotland and Wales. The overwhelming sentiment of Ireland's Protestant minority, unionism mobilised in the decades following Catholic Emancipation in 1829 to oppose ...
May 10, 2024 · A founding member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has told BBC News NI that fellow unionists agree with his belief a united Ireland is "inevitable”. Wallace Thompson, a former DUP special ...
May 13, 2024 · Rishi Sunak has listed Scottish nationalism among the “dangers” faced by the UK during a speech in London. It wasn’t the most dramatic of beginnings. But if you were to circle a box on the calendar and say, this was the start of the long general election campaign, then this might be it. This wasn’t the day the election was called, of ...
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May 28, 2024 · Mr Napier, who was leader of the Alliance Party, remained in politics and was knighted in 1985. He died in 2011. The only minister from the 1974 executive still alive is unionist Leslie Morrell.
