Irish Republican News · January 12, 2004

Burnside and Smyth return to UUP fold

Two Ulster Unionist Party members of parliament who resigned the party whip last summer in protest at the party's stance on the 1998 Good Friday Agreement have resumed the whip, it has been announced.

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