There’s no disloyalty in UUP ranks, but Beattie badly needs some new recruits

As the DUP implodes, can Doug Beattie succeed where David Trimble, Reg Empey, Tom Elliott, Mike Nesbitt, Robin Swann and Steve Aiken all failed as Ulster Unionist Party leaders? Amid DUP disarray, Beattie’s march to the top of the UUP looks perfectly timed. But he faces a tough task regardless.