Has Brexit made Northern Ireland’s DUP more British?
The Democratic Unionist Party was alone amongst Britain’s front-rank provincial parties in supporting Brexit. As a result, we might be about to see what happens when a party steps outside the...
View ArticleThe Irish Government now ought to become cheerleaders for a comprehensive...
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is leaving the EU; the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is leaving the Customs Union; and the United Kingdom of Great...
View ArticleIt’s high time Michel Barnier’s actions matched his words on the Irish border
Today, Arlene Foster and I with senior colleagues will meet Michel Barnier. Our aims in the current negotiations are threefold: to achieve a successful and sensible Brexit to advance the economic and...
View Article20 years on from the Belfast Agreement, Northern Ireland must accept the...
Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the Belfast Agreement. If the period since the EU referendum is any indication, it may be the basis for invoking ‘threats’ to the peace process in Northern...
View ArticleSo-called ‘progressive Europeans’ are using the Belfast Agreement to derail...
Lord Adonis tweeted that after three days in Northern Ireland he had decided that the DUP wanted a hard border for ‘cultural/political reasons’; but like just about everything else pertaining to...
View ArticleBarnier’s Irish border plans, DUP threats and May mooting a customs union –...
For anyone wanting to understand the EU’s position on the crunch issues, Michel Barnier helpfully gave a speech to businesspeople in the European Parliament yesterday (which you can read in full here)....
View ArticleStatesmanship, not brinkmanship, is now needed to deliver the right Brexit...
This past week has sadly brought further damaging rhetoric in the Brexit process and some who ought to be statesmanlike have been anything but. This is surely a moment for statesmanship and for finding...
View ArticleThe backstop remains the reason for the parliamentary Brexit impasse and must...
The self-satisfied, smug smiles of those who arrogantly proclaimed that tearing up the Standing Orders of the House of Commons and creating a dangerous constitutional precedent would produce a way...
View ArticleUK and EU agree new Brexit deal with revised Northern Ireland Protocol and...
Despite repeated insistence from Brussels that the draft Withdrawal Agreement negotiated by Theresa May and Northern Irish backstop were sacrosanct and could not be re-opened, the European Union has...
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