{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/6a85da789cb9faa61a463ed8?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Jon Burrows and the UUP in a fix as Mike Nesbitt resigns","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/1787157048754-49cba2a8-1619-4f64-9637-e39ce45c84c9.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>The UUP's Mike Nesbitt has resigned as health minister – with a stinging public resignation letter aimed at his UUP leader Jon Burrows</p><p>The row is over retaining emergency general surgery at the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine. The Northern Trust had recommended its closure, despite widespread local opposition.</p><p>Jon Burrows told a public meeting in Coleraine that he wouldn't support any closure – despite the health minister being a UUP man.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Mike Nesbitt is understood to have asked his leader to publicly move away from that position, but Jon Burrows refused.</p><p>What's going to be the outcome of all of this for the UUP?&nbsp;</p><p>Ciarán Dunbar joined by the Belfast Telegraph's political editor, Suzanne Breen.</p>","author_name":"Belfast Telegraph"}