Junior and the DUP succession
Gareth Gordon is winging his way towards Dungannon where Free Presbyterian Church elders are due to meet tonight to deliberate on who their future Moderator should be.
In the meantime, I have been back at Broadcasting House, preparing tomorrow's Inside Politics. It was hard to look past the events of Tuesday, when Jim Allister published THAT Ian Jr. letter and Thursday, when Frank Millar wrote his piece in the Irish Times forecasting that Ian Snr. will stand down as an MP at the next election (a report subsequently dismissed by the DUP).
So what we now have for your delectation is a discussion involving Ian Jr. himself and the Ulster Unionist Deputy Leader Danny Kennedy who, earlier in the week, had accused him of engaging in "sordid deals".
Not surprisingly the two politicians don't see eye to eye on the North Antrim related lobbying at St Andrews. But for my money the most interesting part of the programme is at the end when Ian Jr. comments on the "battle for the succession" within the DUP and gives his most public endorsement yet of Peter Robinson as the man to succeed his father as party leader.
As usual the programme goes out on 91Èȱ¬ Radio Ulster at 12.45pm
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