Member

This commitment, along with other commitments in Safeguarding the Union, was used to sell to the unionist people and to the Democratic Unionist Party the necessity of backing this deal to get back to Stormont. That is the reality. But now that we are back it has been reneged on. Some of us expressed the fear at the time that that might happen. We were not successful in our insistence, which is deeply regrettable now, that all these things should be implemented first: do not take the UK Government, Conservative or Labour, at their word, because in Northern Ireland politics we have been let down so often; make sure we have implementation first. But no; it could not wait, unfortunately.