DUP Interim Leader says Jeffrey Donaldson 'cannot be a candidate' for party
DUP interim leader Gavin Robinson says his party is focused on finding a candidate to win former leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson ’s seat in Lagan Valley at the general election.
In an interview with BBC Radio Ulster, Mr Robinson insisted “all of us were in the dark” in terms of the revelations that emerged about Sir Jeffrey. He responded: “I don’t know. I have said very clearly from last Friday that he is suspended from our party. That’s a decisive decision that we took, and that remains the case.
It was put to Mr Robinson that Sir Jeffrey is not able to serve his constituents at present in the same capacity, and is “not there at Westminster to do the job of an MP”. Asked if Sir Jeffrey has any continuing role within the DUP or involved in any conversations at any level within the DUP, Mr Robinson said: “We recognise that he has been suspended from the party, he resigned as party leader, he was suspended from the party, he holds no role within the Democratic Unionist Party.”
“Having been asked to step up in these circumstances, I don’t think anybody would say ‘yeah, that’s for me’, that consideration is gone now, I am doing it, and doing it with the total unified support of my party colleagues,” he said.
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