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May 7 • 18 tweets • 8 min read
🔴Sinn Fein is on course for a historic victory in the Northern Ireland Assembly election, after receiving the most first-preference votes.

Keep up with the latest updates on our politics #liveblog here 👇
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➡️Here are Northern Ireland's election results
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🔴Sinn Fein is on course to be the biggest party in Stormont following Northern Ireland elections, with unionists warning the result could cost the country its place in the United Kingdom

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➡️The results of Thursday's local elections may have presented a mixed picture, but one clear conclusion was evident early on – this was not a landslide for Labour.

The Liberal Democrats could hand the keys to Number 10
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🔴Sinn Fein is on course for a historic victory in the Northern Ireland Assembly election after receiving the most first-preference votes.

We break down what a Sinn Fein win would mean for the future of the UK⬇️
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➡️DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson insisted his party has done "extremely well" in the Stormont Assembly election.

Arriving at the count at the Titanic Exhibition Centre, Sir Jeffrey said unionism "has held its ground" DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Dona...
🗳️The DUP's Stephen Dunne has been elected on the seventh count in the North Down constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly election

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🗣️"People are going to the likes of the Alliance Party in droves because they're being turned off by that angry, negative unionism," said Ulster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie, who was elected in the Upper Bann constituency

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Sinn Fein leader Michelle O'Neill said Northern Ireland was entering a "new era" as a historic election victory loomed for her nationalist party.

"It's a defining moment for our politics and our people," she said

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➡️ Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson has conceded that his nationalist rivals in Sinn Fein were on course for a historic election victory

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➡️ Here are the latest results from the Northern Ireland Assembly elections

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🔴The Assembly election result in Northern Ireland "ushers in a new era", Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O'Neill has said.

In her declaration speech in Magherafelt, O'Neill said: "Today represents a very significant moment of change"

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➡️Sinn Fein remains in the lead with 23 seats won so far.

The DUP is behind with 22 seats, while the Alliance is on 16 seats. The UUP has claimed 9 seats
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🗳️Alliance leader Naomi Long topped the poll in East Belfast where the same party strengths were returned to the Stormont benches.

Ms Long described a "rollercoaster of a week"

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/… Naomi Long, centre, leader ...
➡️ Here are the latest results for the North Ireland Assembly elections.

Follow the liveblog for more updates 👇
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🔴 Sinn Fein has won 27 seats in the Northern Ireland election, it has been announced.

➡️The result confirms the party as the largest at Stormont, for the first time

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🔴As Sinn Fein became the largest party in Stormont for the first time, shadow Northern Ireland secretary Peter Kyle said his party could act as an "honest broker".

"Unionism will still have a strong voice within powersharing," he said

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🗨️ Ireland's Taoiseach Micheal Martin has said it is "incumbent on all political parties" to form an Executive in Northern Ireland

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🔴 Russia is holding a large-scale military parade through Moscow to mark Victory Day, with Ukraine's military warning that there is a "high probability of missile strikes" to mark the occasion

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🔴Watch: Live coverage as a large-scale military parade is held in Moscow to mark Victory Day 👇

🔴Vladimir Putin has arrived in Moscow's Red Square for the large-scale military parade.

He shook hands with generals and veterans as he took his seat for proceedings.

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May 8
❓Is the property frenzy about to turn into an almighty crash?

📈 The giddy heights reached in the last decade may merely increase the size of the fall

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🏠 Katie Herbert is trying to buy a family home in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and has found herself out-bid at every turn.

“The market is mad here,” she says. “One estate agent told me a good house will sell in hours”
💷 The 32-year old mother of one has a smaller deposit than she would like.

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🔴Russia has bombed a school in Bilohorivka, where roughly 90 people were sheltering.

It has killed two people and left 60 in the debris feared dead, the governor of the Luhansk region has said.

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May 7
Many voters who turned against the Conservatives this week were punishing the party for falling rates of home ownership, Michael Gove has warned.

The Housing Secretary said: “We’ve got to do more on home ownership”

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🗣️ Gove said: “Even as interest rates are in the position that they are, there are people who are perfectly capable of servicing a mortgage who are paying more in rent than they would for their mortgage.”

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🏠 Gove outlined plans designed to increase the supply of homes, which are due to form part of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill.

The plan is one of the flagship pieces of legislation expected to be announced in next week’s Queen’s Speech
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❓Why did middle-class voters turn away from the Tories?

➡️The cost-of-living crisis and ‘partygate’ were at the front of voter’s minds, according to two focus groups

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🔴It's 7.30pm and Donna, a 47-year-old care assistant, is sitting in her Wakefield home, wrapped in a shawl.

Like many across the country, she's become acutely conscious of the rising cost of living.

Increasing prices are already having an impact on her day-to-day life
🗣️“I have noticed it recently,” Donna said.

“My kids have left home and it’s just me and my partner."

“I’m washing after six now. We don’t really put the heating on. If we put the heating on to take the cold out of the air, it’s after six and it’s only for an hour”
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