Sam McBride

@SJAMcBride

News Letter political correspondent. These are my views and not necessarily those of my 279-year-old employer

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Joined January 2012

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    Long read on David Cameron's Northern Ireland legacy: Young PM who took on Stormont & won, driving DUP & SF together

  2. No sign of Stormont's committees holding urgent hearings on Brexit during the Assembly's two-month summer holiday

  3. That would be Press Office expenditure Sam - You'll find wages are covered under the 'Wages and Related Costs' section.

  4. But Sinn Fein's annual accounts for its NI operations show total income (membership fees, donors & everything else) of less than £1.2m (2/2)

  5. By my crude calculations, SF's 'average industrial wage' policy should have netted the party £1.3m from MLAs & Spads alone last year. (1/2)

  6. Latest accounts for major NI parties confirm that SF is still by far the richest- but also has the most expenditure

  7. David McNarry says Ukip NI secretary Alan Lewis has quit for "a party of EU luvvies" (the UUP) & denies that Mr Lewis was ever his adviser

  8. Further evidence of problems in Ukip NI: regional secretary (& ex-David McNarry employee) Alan Lewis has quit the party & joined the UUP

  9. New News Letter website launched today: . Send any feedback to &

  10. Six years on, documents which Stormont didn't want you to see shed new light on advice which saved Peter Robinson

  11. DUP Lord Mayor keen to stress that although he spoke at a Gay Pride event on Friday, he did not "launch" the event

  12. I think Hussey saga a watershed moment that shows changing attitudes to morality/privacy:

  13. The UDA work with us - but the UVF won't & they aren't in a good place, says DUP MP in unusually candid comments

  14. Sunday World editor takes me to task for describing their Ross Hussey story as "lurid".

  15. Unionist peer facing court over an 80p train fare says he feels ‘set upon’ since linking bestiality & homosexuality

  16. Former rep. , currently , appointed Special Adviser to NI Sec . SpAd Jonathan Caine remains in post.

  17. After pressure from Mike Nesbitt, Health Minister Michelle O'Neill releases names of 7-person abortion working group

  18. Flood of complaints to watchdog over Sunday Life treatment of Ross Hussey; IPSO says it can't regulate Sunday World

  19. "Brexit means Brexit", Theresa May tells an unimpressed Martin McGuinness- but PM not keen on media questions

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