Prospect of a DUP civil war is receding... the party knows it is time to pull together

Emma Little-Pengelly is in the running to be DUP deputy leader

Suzanne Breen

We all thought we’d seen the last of Edwin Poots in the hurley-burley of Northern Ireland politics.

Yes, there’d be the odd comic or caustic comment from the Speaker in the Assembly, but his days at the coalface were gone.