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‘We thought Robinson would join the UUP’
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Feb 07, 2011 11:45pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, February 8, 2011 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | PETER Robinson was thought a likely defector to the Ulster Unionist Party in the late 1980s by some in the party who would have welcomed him with open arms, Lord Trimble has claimed.
The Conservative peer said that figures on the moderate wing of the UUP believed – and were hopeful – that the now DUP leader would defect in the aftermath of his resignation as deputy leader of his party in 1987.
Mr Robinson had joined two Ulster Unionists on a working group – the Unionist Task Force (see below) – but stepped down as Ian Paisley’s deputy after he and UUP leader Jim Molyneaux rejected the report’s recommendations.
Far from joining the Ulster Unionists, Mr Robinson went on to become David Trimble’s political nemesis during the decade in which he led the UUP, which ended in his removal in a backlash against him taking the UUP into power-sharing with Sinn Fein. |
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