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| | Politics | Harry West |
 | | The Northern Ireland politician Harry West, who has died aged 86, was one of the hardline unionists who supported the Ulster workers' strike that, in 1974, helped bring down the Sunningdale agreement, Edward Heath's attempt to restore local government to the province after the imposition of direct rule in 1972. |
 | | West became leader of the party in 1974 after Brian Faulker was ousted, and took it into alliance with the Rev Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist party and William Craig's Vanguard Unionists, which had both backed the loyalist paramilitaries in the strike. |
 | | Personally, West was a bluff, good-humoured family man who, when he was Westminster MP for that same consituency and violence was at its worst, flew home every night from London because he felt it was too dangerous to be away. |
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