{"id":8242,"date":"2024-03-24T06:21:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T06:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/24\/sir-jeffrey-donaldson-man-removed-from-plane-after-row-with-dup-leader\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T06:21:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T06:21:04","slug":"sir-jeffrey-donaldson-man-removed-from-plane-after-row-with-dup-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/24\/sir-jeffrey-donaldson-man-removed-from-plane-after-row-with-dup-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Jeffrey Donaldson: Man removed from plane after row with DUP leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/e3.365dm.com\/23\/10\/70x70\/skynews-jeffrey-donaldson-dup_6319314.jpg?20231012135637&amp;resize=70,70&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sir Jeffrey Donaldson: Man removed from plane after row with DUP leader\" title=\"Sir Jeffrey Donaldson: Man removed from plane after row with DUP leader\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>A man has been removed from a plane at Heathrow Airport after he was involved in a row with DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed the passenger was removed from the flight on Wednesday evening following a &#8220;verbal altercation&#8221; with the Northern Ireland politician.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/topic\/dup-6431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DUP <\/strong><\/a>declined to comment on the incident but a party source confirmed a man had been verbally abusive towards Sir Jeffrey.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said: &#8220;At around 5 30pm on Wednesday, March 20, airline staff at Heathrow Airport made police aware of a verbal altercation involving two male passengers during boarding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One man was removed from the flight. There were no arrests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/sammy-wilson-steps-down-as-dup-chief-whip-13079193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sammy Wilson steps down as DUP chief whip<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/teenager-charged-with-murder-of-shaquille-graham-in-catford-after-shooting-near-nightclub-13100415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teenager charged with murder over shooting near nightclub<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/download-app\" target=\"blank\" data-tracking-label=\"ui-app-promo-download-link\" class=\"ui-app-promo sdc-article-widget\" data-type=\"\" data-component-name=\"ui-app-promo\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Sir Jeffrey told parliament how he had been subjected to threats as he continued his negotiations with the UK government over a deal on post-Brexit trading arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Police investigated the matter but found no criminal offences linked to the alleged threats.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been removed from a plane at Heathrow Airport after he was involved in a row with DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson. Police confirmed the passenger was removed from the flight on Wednesday evening following a &#8220;verbal altercation&#8221; with the Northern Ireland politician. The DUP declined to comment on the incident but a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/23\/10\/70x70\/skynews-jeffrey-donaldson-dup_6319314.jpg?20231012135637","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[12491,7148,12490,1891,108,200,5028,371,1170],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8244,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8242\/revisions\/8244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}