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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 10 December 2024
Debate
Movement of Goods (Northern Ireland to Great Britain) (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Transitory Provision and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2024Contribution
We were told that, because of Northern Ireland’s divided past, constitutional issues would have to be decided on a cross-community vote. I remember back in the early 1970s successive Governments saying to us clearly that majority rule was over in Northern Ireland—it was dead —and that any decision in a future Assembly would have to be by cross-community consent, where a majority of unionists and nationalists agree. My, how that seems to have gone with just the whip of a pen, after 50 years.
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