{"id":198453,"date":"2025-10-14T02:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/198453\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T02:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T02:34:11","slug":"ni-assembly-unionism-at-loggerheads-as-dup-motion-slamming-dual-language-signage-policy-defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/198453\/","title":{"rendered":"NI Assembly: Unionism at loggerheads as DUP\u00a0motion slamming dual language signage policy defeated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The motion had called on Belfast City Council to review its policy\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Inset: Timothy Gaston and Phillip Brett\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1df8e86b-83fa-47ce-ae48-88236d31caa7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Inset: Timothy Gaston and Phillip Brett<\/p>\n<p>Liam Tunney and Abdullah Sabri<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at 21:45<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Stormont debate on a DUP motion calling on Belfast City Council to review its policy on dual language signage in the city has ended in the party accusing the TUV of \u201cattacking a fellow unionist\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The motion, brought by North Belfast MLAs Phillip Brett and Brian Kingston, and East Belfast representative David Brooks, described the council\u2019s policy as \u201cundemocratic and oppressive\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The motion had called on Belfast City Council to review its policy Inset: Timothy Gaston and Phillip Brett&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[86358,1334,19415,16669,59,57,58,2859,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-198453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-abdullah-sabri","tag-belfast","tag-belfast-city-council","tag-democratic-unionist-party","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-liam-tunney","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}