Edwin Poots

(Liam McBurney/PA)

DUP minister Edwin Poots facing surgery after chance cancer diagnosis

January 20, 2021

Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

Brandon Lewis acting like ’emperor with no clothes’ on NI protocol – DUP

January 19, 2021

The EU needs to display common sense over the Northern Ireland protocol, Edwin Poots said (Liam McBurney/PA).

Jelly and gravy supplies threatened when grace period ends, Stormont warns

January 18, 2021

Health and education officials in Northern Ireland have denied claims hospitals and schools risk running out of food when post-Brexit Irish Sea trade arrangements are fully implemented (Liam McBurney/PA)

Health and education authorities deny Poots’ NI food shortage claims

January 14, 2021

Empty food shelves at a Tesco store in Banbridge, Northern Ireland (Brian Lawless/PA)

Minister accused of scaremongering over hospital food shortage warning

January 14, 2021

Depleted supermarket shelves (David Young/PA)

NI hospitals and schools facing food shortages in ‘major crisis’ – minister

January 14, 2021

Some Northern Ireland pet owners face onerous documentary checks and unjustified vet treatments due to the Northern Ireland protocol, the agriculture minister said (Andrew Milligan/PA).

Pet owners moving animals from GB face ‘onerous’ checks, says Poots

January 7, 2021

Health Minister Robin Swann (Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye/PA)

Ministers again fail to agree new coronavirus restrictions for NI

November 11, 2020

Northern Ireland Economy Minister Diane Dodds during a press conference (PA)

Ministers locked in late night talks over new NI coronavirus restrictions

November 10, 2020

Businesses in Great Britain are considering pulling out of Northern Ireland because of the Brexit protocol, the agriculture minister Edwin Poots warned (Brian Lawless/PA)

GB businesses ‘considering pulling out of NI due to protocol’

November 3, 2020