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DUP ‘U-turn’ on double-jobbing

THE DUP has been accused of a U-turn after Peter Robinson suggested that his MPs may run again for the assembly.

Peter Robinson | DupIn an interview with the News Letter, the DUP leader said that it would be manifestly unfair if his party withdrew its big-name MPs from next year’s elections but other parties do not.

Sinn Fein, whose MPs do not take their Westminister seats but make full use of Westminster’s generous allowances, is running most of its MPs in next year’s assembly election.

Mr Robinson said that it would be for his party’s executive to decide whether DUP MPs — many of whom have left the assembly in recent months to concentrate on Westminster — are allowed to return.

But Mr Robinson’s comments were seized upon by Sinn Fein and the TUV, who accused him of a policy about-turn.

In a statement, TUV leader Jim Allister highlighted Mr Robinson’s comment before May’s general election in which he said that “…any of our assembly members elected to Westminster will give up their assembly seats”.

Mr Allister said: “Yet today in the News Letter Mr Robinson suggests that the DUP will allow MPs to run for election to the assembly.”

The former DUP MEP said that Mr Robinson’s comments were “outrageous” and amounted to “a flagrant breach of the DUP’s pledge to end the practice of double-jobbing.”

North Antrim Sinn Fein MLA Daithi McKay accused the DUP of a ‘U-turn”.

“Given the ongoing efforts by the DUP to scupper the current legislation in the assembly banning double-jobbing…it will come as little surprise that Peter Robinson is now indicating that the DUP MPs who left the assembly in a great fanfare will indeed be slotted onto the DUP ticket in the May elections.”

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Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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