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Come on Arlene: An Interview with Arlene Foster

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The Devolutionists in Northern Ireland

I think the unionist leadership at the time probably didn't go down that route. That's going to be a tension that goes all the way through until today. But it strikes me that the fact that Paisley and those around him rejected that and were devolutionists points to the fact that Northern Ireland is different to the other bits of the UK. They were like, no, we don't want that. We want our own storm mark. And I think people hardback to wanting to have their own parliament again. It was something that we'd had for 50 years, then it was taken away. You could see that over the Brexit negotiations where the SMP were looking for one

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