{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/67d9a3f88e0ad1dccd8ca7c4?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"How Basil McCrea's career and party ended in utter chaos  | NI21 (Part 2) - the downfall","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/1742316520652-cf041591-b221-41d9-8422-61d99abcbcb1.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>NI21 appeared to many as a great idea. But the enthusiasm and positivity did not last long and the party’s collapse into chaos was a spectacular one. Just a day before the party’s first electoral test in 2014 – the party decides that they are now agnostic on the issue of the border, it was then torn apart by controversy and infighting.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Ciarán Dunbar is joined by Sam McBride to talk about how the wheels came off NI21, where the party’s leaders are now, and if a liberal unionist party could ever work.&nbsp;</p>","author_name":"Belfast Telegraph"}