BBC Northern Ireland's weekly politics programme. Presented by @MarkCarruthers7. Also posts on #SundayPolitics & #BBCRedLines ▪️Email: [email protected]

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🚨 You can now watch last night’s @bbctheview on YouTube. I’ve been discussing @carlalockhart’s resignation from the DUP’s officer team & the wider state of unionism with the leaders of the three main unionist parties. Catch up here 👇 youtu.be/emGGO7iQjDU
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"Unionism seems to be in a place were everybody is shouting at each other." Former DUP special adviser @timcairns tells @MarkCarruthers7
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"At this stage it would be a surprise if John Finucane didn't run" in the Assembly election. Former Irish News editor Noel Doran says #Drumcree has been "something of a gamechanger" for nationalism. #BBCTheView @MarkCarruthers7
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"He's doing the best job that he can, this is not a good move for Gavin Robinson." @MarkCarruthers7 asks @SuzyJourno about DUP MP Carla Lockhart's decision to stand down as a party officer.
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"There are unrivalled opportunities for Northern Ireland to be prosperous and unfortunately we are on programmes like this showing dis-unity." UUP leader @JonBurrowsMLA #BBCTheView @MarkCarruthers7
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Unionist unity? DUP leader @GRobinsonDUP & TUV leader @JimAllister clash over powersharing at Stormont. #BBCTheView @MarkCarruthers7
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"How do you think she quit, she spoke to me." @MarkCarruthers7 asks DUP leader @GRobinsonDUP how he found out his colleague @carlalockhart had stood down as a DUP party officer.
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"I did warn at the outset that a legal victory at Drumcree with the march could turn into a strategic defeat, that it could end up dividing unionism and galvanising the Sinn Féin vote. It has turned out to be that way." UUP leader @JonBurrowsMLA @MarkCarruthers7 #BBCTheView
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"It turns out all you did was profound nothing and you've allowed Sinn Fein off the hook and they're laughing at you." @JimAllister tells @MarkCarruthers7
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Tonight DUP MP @carlalockhart resigned as a DUP officer, a story first reported by @SuzyJourno DUP party leader @GRobinsonDUP says he's "sorry to see that it has occurred and she remains a key part of our team." #BBCTheView @MarkCarruthers7
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.@BBCTheView is live on BBC One NI now.
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Coming up tonight on @BBCTheView ... Three unionist party leaders go head-to-head on Drumcree, Stormont and elections. @MarkCarruthers7 will be joined by: - DUP leader @GRobinsonDUP - UUP leader @JonBurrowsMLA - TUV leader @JimAllister 📺 10.40pm | BBC One NI & @BBCiPlayer
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Ann Watt, director of think-tank Pivotal, sets out the pressures ahead of another meeting between the Stormont Executive and @RhonddaBryant Ministers need £1.6bn, London is offering a third of that. Strikes are now planned because health pay rises haven’t been sorted.
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The "sophisticated lobbying" of the veterans' movement has brought us to this point says @AllisonMorris1 speaking to @MarkCarruthers7 on BBC NI Sunday Politics
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Philip Barden, a solicitor who's represented a numer of Troubles veterans, including two soliders accused of murder in 1974, says past decisions by NI prosecutors were not "fair" or "reliable"
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The government plans to give the Attorney General in London - rather than prosecutors here - the power to decide if someone should be put on trial for serious offences committed during the Troubles. Mark Thompson of @RelsForJustice tells @MarkCarruthers7 why they oppose the move
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"I'm furious" deputy First Minister @little_pengelly tells @MarkCarruthers7 the "reckless behaviour" of @moneillsf won't distract her from lobbying @RhonddaBryant for more money
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