Cameron faces questions on return to NI

It is only a few days since David Cameron last visited Northern Ireland.On 4 May, he addressed a rally at the La Mon hotel in County Down as a party leader on the campaign trail, backing his local Ulster Unionist allies and emphasising his passion for the union. Now he is prime minister, he has stressed that the hard-won achievements of the peace process will be safe in his hands and that he can work with Stormont politicians from across the green-orange spectrum. Whilst Mr Cameron achieved his aim of taking up residence at Number 10, the Conservative and Unionist candidates who rallied to his cause in Northern Ireland have had to come to terms with a comprehensive defeat at the polls. The Ulster Unionists were once the dominant political force in Northern Ireland. Historically the Conservatives and Ulster Unionists had been linked - those who supported reviving this link argued that it held the key to forging a new kind of unionism, capable of appealing to voters regardless of whether they were Catholic or Protestant Their leader, David Trimble, was the key player in the negotiations which led to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. But unionist grassroots felt uncomfortable about the compromises involved in sharing power with Sinn Fein. They punished the Ulster Unionists by switching to Ian Paisley's DUP, which became the bigger party both at Stormont and at Westminster, reducing the UUP in 2005 to just one MP.

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