Transforming Unionism: David Trimble and the 2005 General Election: David Trimble and the 2005 Election - Softcover

Kerr, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0716533898 ISBN 13: 9780716533894

Publisher: Irish Academic Press, 2005

Synopsis

In what is their centenary year, the Ulster Unionist Party has been left reeling from the 2005 Westminster general election results. The historic party of the union has but one remaining seat in the House of Commons, and as was predicted, Northern Ireland's electorate has abandoned the centre-ground parties in favour of the extremes. The DUP and Sinn Fein now hold the key to political progress - a scenario almost inconceivable when the Belfast Agreement was signed seven long years ago. So how did the UUP become so out of touch with mainstream Unionist opinion? What could the party have done to hold its vote in the 2005 general election? Why did the British Government abandon Trimble after he had led Ulster Unionism from international isolation to being the driving force behind the Belfast Agreement? In Transforming Unionism Michael Kerr offers a view of the UUP's electoral meltdown from inside Ulster Unionist Party Head Quarters, and unravels the last days of Trimble as Ulster Unio

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Kerr has lived in the Rockies for over 12 years. He now manages his own corporate training and speaking company, Speaking of Ideas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Irish Academic Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0716533898
• ISBN 13: 9780716533894
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258