Belfast Live Article Rating

Brendan Hughes: DUP approach to Union a web of contradictions

May 21, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    48% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    48% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -60% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : The same DUP that championed leaving the European Union, and when holding the balance of power at Westminster, sided with Tories pushing for ever harder forms of Brexit.
46% : There was little mention of "cross-community consent" when a majority in Northern Ireland voted in favour of remaining in the European Union, nor when the DUP propped up the Conservative government during Brexit negotiations.
32% : It blocked support for same-sex marriage.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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