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A canny decision?

Mark Devenport | 01:49 UK time, Friday, 7 May 2010

I was just watching the jubilant David Ford on the live feed from Newtownards and the following thought occurred to me. Didn't the DUP go along with making him Justice Minister in part because, unlike the Ulster Unionists, Alliance didn't present any electoral threat?

In hindsight it could rank alongside canny decisions like bringing back Jim Allister back from retirement.

Although maybe the Long leap forward would have happened in East Belfast irrespective of any ministerial appointments at Stormont.

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