What to make of the triumph of Edwin Poots, the new leader of the Democratic Unionist party, who defeated the party’s Westminster leader Jeffrey Donaldson by 19 votes to 17 in its first ever leadership election?
Poots’ victory marks for some the definitive end of the party’s moderate turn instituted by Peter Robinson in 2008.
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