A SON of the late DUP leader Ian Paisley has said the party should "withdraw its support" for the Conservative government if it "reneges on its pledge" to help Bombardier in its dispute with Boeing.
Rev Kyle Paisley, a Free Presbyterian minister in England, tweeted the remarks in the wake the US ruling on Bombardier which threatens thousands of jobs in Belfast.
The DUP and the Tories signed a 'confidence and supply' deal in June, after Theresa May's decision to call a snap election left her without the majority needed to form a government on her own.
The government has committed an extra £1 billion over the next two years, in return for the DUP's ten MPs backing the government in key Commons votes.
It is not the first time Kyle Paisley, whose brother Ian is the DUP MP for North Antrim, has commented on political matters affecting the north.
In 2015 he hit out at former DUP leader Peter Robinson in the wake of controversial comments about trusting Muslims saying if he had made such remarks anywhere else his political career might have ended.
He also criticised remarks by DUP politician Edwin Poots that his party would have to "hold their noses" to continue in government with Sinn Féin saying they were detrimental to unionism.
There was also speculation last year that he intended to meet with Eugene Reavey, who was named by his father, under parliamentary privilege, linking him to the Kingsmill massacre.
However he pulled out given media attention which he said led to a misleading implication that he intended to apologise over his father’s allegation.
In his latest tweet he said: "Should be no support for the govt from the DUP if the govt reneges on its' pledge to help Bombardier. Withdraw support altogether."
It came as British prime minister Theresa May hit out at rival airplane makers Boeing, saying that its behaviour was "no way to operate".
Boeing had complained to the US authorities about state subsidies paid to Canadian manufacturer Bombardier by the UK and Canada meaning they can sell their products for less than cost price.
The US Department of Commerce has now a massive tariff hike on the imported sale of Bombardier's new C-Series jets into the US - an aircraft whose wings are made in Belfast.
The ruling, to be made in February, could potentially have a devastating impact on Bombardier's 4,200 workforce in Northern Ireland, and thousands more jobs in its supply chain.
