Arlene Foster: So, what next for our area now represented by a Sinn Féin ‘blow-in’?
The great Star Wars actor, Mark Hamill, once said: “Everything has changed. Nothing has changed.” That is as good a phrase as any to sum up the general election’s results last week. Yes, sure we have a new government elected – with a stonking majority, only slightly behind that of the Blair government of 1997 – but that said government has been elected with only 34 per cent of the popular vote.