The executive of the Ulster Unionist Party is meeting today to consider the party's future, after failing to get a single MP elected in the general election.

The party and the Conservatives made a pact under which they agreed to field candidates in Northern Ireland under a joint ticket.

Alex Kane, former director of communications for the UUP, comments on the party's decline in the polls.

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