Nigel Dodds: “I would stay in the European Union and remain rather than risk Northern Ireland’s position. That’s how strongly I feel about the union”
Shortly after the vote the DUP deputy leader, Nigel Dodds rose in the house to say that Ms May knows that the backstop in the withdrawal agreement designed to avoid a hard border “remains the problem”.
“We deeply regret the numerous missed opportunities by those who negotiated on behalf of the UK to listen to our warnings about the dangers of the backstop and to take steps to remedy those deficiencies,” said Ms Foster. “In those circumstances there is the strong possibility that we could have a long-term outcome whereby Northern Ireland would inevitably pull away from its biggest trading market in Great Britain as there would be new internal barriers within the United Kingdom,” she said.
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