Trimble Defeats Hard-Liners in Party
The leader of Northern Ireland’s unity government triumphed over hard-liners within his Protestant party, brightening prospects for Catholic-Protestant cooperation and peacemaking efforts in the troubled British province.
David Trimble, who has faced persistent challenges to his leadership of the Ulster Unionist Party, received a 409-320 vote from his party’s grass-roots council.
The vote defeated a hard-line motion that would have made Trimble begin withdrawing the Ulster Unionists from the government again unless Britain reversed key reforms to Northern Ireland’s police force.
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