The Government has described claims that it may have used knowledge of Jeffrey Donaldson’s sex offending as “leverage” in a deal to restore power sharing in Northern Ireland in 2024 as “deeply distasteful and absolute nonsense”.
TUV leader Jim Allister had raised questions over whether the former DUP leader, who was convicted this week for a string of sex offences, had been “compromised to the detriment of unionism”.
