Parties gear up for Westminster election

SDLP leader Margaret Ritchie has announced that she intends to seek her party’s nomination to stand in Eddie McGrady’s South Down seat in the Westminster election, when he took the seat from Ulster Unionist MP and former Conservative Enoch Powell.

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