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No DUP ministers agreed with Poots on Covid nationalist areas claim, says Foster

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The former first minister said she did not challenge the comments in public at the time as she did not want to give them any further traction.

No other DUP ministers agreed with a claim made by former Stormont minister Edwin Poots that Covid-19 was more prevalent in nationalist areas in Northern Ireland, Baroness Foster has said.

Baroness Foster leaving the Clayton Hotel in Belfast after giving evidence to the UK Covid-19 inquiry hearing He was subsequently elected DUP leader but his tenure proved short-lived, resigning after just 21 days in the job following another internal revolt. The baroness was later asked about Mr Poots’ comments by Brenda Campbell KC, counsel to a group representing families bereaved in the pandemic.

 

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