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By Michael McBride
BBC News NI
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Edwin Poots has resigned as DUP leader after just 21 days in the job following an internal party revolt.
He had been elected in the first leadership contest in the DUP’s 50-year history, with predecessors chosen by the party’s top ranks.
So what went so wrong, so quickly, for the party’s shortest-serving leader?
Why did the DUP turn against him?
Edwin Poots was under huge pressure having agreed a deal with Sinn Féin and the Westminster government to ensure Paul Givan became Northern Ireland’s first minister.
This move was voted against by most of his elected colleagues.
image copyrightReutersHow did he come to power?
Mr Poots, who took over as leader from Arlene Foster in May, had narrowly defeated Sir Jeffrey Donaldson in a leadership vote.
The ousting of…
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