.uuponline leader BeattieDoug says next week's council election offers a choice 'between delivery or dysfunction' as he launches his party's manifesto LE23
UUP candidate Linzi McLaren, with party leader Doug Beattie and fellow candidate Nicholas Trimble at the party's local government manifesto 2023 launch at the Linen Hall Library, BelfastThe Ulster Unionist leader has directly appealed to people who are not from a traditional pro-union background to back the party in next week's local government elections.The party, which ruled Northern Ireland for 50 years, has fallen far behind the DUP in the last two decades.
This time the Ulster Unionists are running 101 candidates and hoping to retain their position as the third largest party in local government, although Alliance overtook them in last year's Assembly election.The Windsor Framework, he said, provided "challenges and opportunities". "That is why it is the firm belief of the Ulster Unionist Party that the Assembly and Executive must be restored to deal with the challenges still posed by the Windsor Framework and to grasp its opportunities.
Asked if his brand had been damaged by the controversy over a series of historic tweets he made while a serving solider he said he had owned up to his mistakes and apologised.He said he had been called a leiberal unionist but there was no such thing.
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