Member

The previous Government decided that they would compromise on Northern Ireland, in the hope that it would be only short-term because the EU would realise that it would be absurd for it to pursue the division of a sovereign state as a long-term arrangement. If we had faced the European Union as a United Kingdom, the extraordinary proposition that only part of the UK could leave the EU would not have been entertained and we would not be in the situation in which we find ourselves, whereby, because Northern Ireland has been denied properly leaving the EU, the rest of the UK is beginning to be compromised as well.