{"id":613991,"date":"2026-05-31T17:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613991\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:20:08","slug":"uup-doug-beattie-quits-as-his-membership-no-longer-tenable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613991\/","title":{"rendered":"UUP: Doug Beattie quits as his membership no longer &#8216;tenable&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beattie also said he no longer believes the party reflects a &#8220;moderate and progressive outlook&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He referenced the recent decision by a party councillor Kate Evans, who works in Beattie&#8217;s constituency office, to quit the UUP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beattie also criticised a move related to another of the party&#8217;s nine MLAs, Alan Chambers, who was told not to put his name forward when his constituency association in North Down meets to select its candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He ended his letter by saying he wished the party well and hopes it can &#8220;rediscover its social conscience&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UUP has been asked for a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beattie also said he no longer believes the party reflects a &#8220;moderate and progressive outlook&#8221;. He referenced the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-613991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613991","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=613991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}