Referendum is inevitable and they should participate in preparing the ground for it
- Alex Kane
- The Irish Times
In 2017 unionists, for the first time ever, lost their overall majority in a Northern Ireland parliament; in local council elections three weeks ago they lost their overall majority of councillors; and…
Surely, some argue, those losses, along with other shifts in opinion and electoral support, suggest that it is not unreasonable to conclude that a victory for unity in a border poll could be “likely…
Just a few years ago it would have been unthinkable for a leading unionist to countenance the…