Jeffrey Donaldson: ‘My return to Stormont shouldn’t cost a colleague a seat’

	Aug 25, 2021

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	Jeffrey Donaldson: ‘My return to Stormont shouldn’t cost a colleague a seat’

	Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s strategic return to NI Assembly politics won’t necessarily cost a party colleague their Stormont seat, the DUP MP has said.

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