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Launching their election slogan today ("Let's keep Northern Ireland moving forward") the DUP pledged that any MLAs who win Westminster seats will give up their Assembly jobs. They are keeping one exception, namely the party leader, as Peter Robinson reckons having the access to government which comes with being in the Commons will be important, especially if there's a hung parliament. Despite his talk of preferring Stormont to Westminster he confirmed he is putting his name forward in East Belfast.

And given his speed of movement between both places he clearly has the technology.

P.S. There were a couple of moments of apparent contrition in Mr Robinson's speech. On expenses he apologised, not for any of his own claims, but for not acting to alter the "systemic defects" in the system. On agreeing to share power with Sinn Fein in 2007, he refused to accept the DUP broke its word, but acknowledged that "we did not do enough to explain what we did and why we did it".

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