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Is the Good Friday Agreement under threat? With Jonathan Powell

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

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The DUP's Concerns About the Storm at Brick

The DUP have valid concerns about what happens when Boris Johnson shafted them by putting the border in the RSC. The Storm on break is not quite as first advertised, but that's not too surprising because you have this problem in Northern Ireland. Anyone who wants to unite in Ireland has to answer some very difficult questions. If you had a referendum where you had a 52-48 split, like the Brexit referendum, are you really going to force 800,000 reluctance a unionist into a United Ireland against their wishes? I don't think you are. How are you going to protect their rights as a minority within a United Ireland? Does that stay there as a regional parliament? So there are

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