Transforming Unionism
David Trimble and the 2005 Election

Presented through the eyes of the campaign team, and including interviews with key players, this book dissects the 05 campaign and the end of the Trimble project. It evaluates where and why the leadership failed, lays out other directions for the party, and offers analysis of what Ulster Unionism must do to rebuild its electoral base.

Kerr evaluates where and why the UUP leadership failed, lays out the different directions the party may now take, and offers a constructive analysis of what Ulster Unionism must do if it is to rebuild its electoral base and emerge from the wreckage of one of the most torrid episodes in the party's 100-year history.

Contents: Maintaining the Union
Doing the Decent Thing
Flogging a Dead Horse
Is This Bus Going to Westminster?
Spun Out
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Trimble Project
His Masters Voice
The State of the Union