Ulster Unionist European candidate anxious not to be elbowed aside by either SDLP or Alliance leaders
leader and candidate is eliminated before him during the count, as seems likely.
Brexit has exercised republicans and nationalists, but he is not sure that the “same levels of excitement exist within the unionist community”. He says some of the upheaval in Britain over Brexit is upsetting. He refers to the BBC Question Time weekly programme where some of the debate between Leavers and Remainers can be “pretty aggressive”.
On the anti-Brexit side the argument is getting two Remainers elected would send a message to London that Northern Ireland won’t tolerate a hard Brexit, and that perhaps the referendum result itself might even be overthrown by a second plebiscite.
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