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Does the Ulster Unionist Party have Arlene Foster rattled?

The DUP leader has accused Steve Aiken, the UUP's leader-in-waiting, of handing seats to Sinn Féin.

By Patrick Maguire

This morning on BBC Northern Ireland’s Sunday Politics a tetchy Arlene Foster was asked about Steve Aiken, the leader-in-waiting of the Ulster Unionists. 

Yesterday, on the morning of a subdued DUP conference – arguably the party’s trickiest in years – Aiken used a Belfast Telegraph interview to rule out any cooperation with his party’s much bigger rival come the next general election.

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