Sinn Féin is now the largest party in Northern Ireland local government for the first time, after gains in council elections
This Sinn Féin victory may not be a surprise but the size of it probably is.
The DUP is secure in second place, with the party claiming an endorsement for its policy of boycotting Stormont over the Northern Ireland Protocol. The former UUP leader Mike Nesbitt says there should only be two unionist parties - one traditional and one more liberal.But the new political landscape seems to have less room for smaller parties, with losses for People Before Profit and the Greens, whose leader Mal O'Hara lost his seat.The results are unlikely to have any immediate impact on the stalemate at Stormont, with the DUP holding out for movement from the government over the Irish Sea border.
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