Welcome to the first in a series of Red Lions election specials.

Each week between now and the election, we'll be profiling one of the main parties.

Next week, it's the STLP in the spotlight, but today we're looking at the Ulster Unionist Party

for generations, of course, the dominant political force in local politics.

That's after we've had a word about the election stories of the moment,

Garth Gordon.

And you've just arrived back into the building from interviewing the UUP's Doug Beatty in Porta Down.

So the Austro-Unions Party very much in the spotlight at the moment.

Yep.

We're talking packs, of course.

And the pact I'd really like the parties to strike at the moment as a pact to have no pack stories for a day.

So we can all get a little chance of that.

That's not going to happen. Yeah, I want to see Doug Biddy because obviously the story

rumbling on about the Ulster Unionist Party pulling out of North Belfast, having had threats,

although they say the threats are not the thing that made them pull out of North Belfast,

if you can stick with that. Some speculation now that they may pull out of other seats, they've come under a bit of

pressure. David Campbell, who's a former Ulster Unionist Party chairman, among other things. He's in

the news today saying they should stand the side in south and east Belfast as well to allow the

DUP a freer run.

Doug Biddy says that as things stand at the moment, the party intends to run in all of the other 17

constituencies in Northern Ireland.

But he fears that they may come under pressure in South and East Belfast and the individuals

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