Alliance will not stand down
As first stated by our own Philip Weir here yesterday, it looks like the Alliance Party have called a halt to standing down in favour of other ‘moderate’ parties.Noel MacAdam’s piece which quotes party leader David Ford suggesting that he might have been backed for a peerage, where his candidates to back down in favour of the UUP in several key constituencies. MacAdam mentions East and South Antrim, and North Down – three crucial battleground constituencies in the next Westminster …