Northern Ireland minister says he now regrets UK’s Brexit vote did not require support of 60 per cent of those who voted
Steve Baker, addressing the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly: Would anyone here seriously want a 50 per cent plus one united Ireland result in Northern Ireland? Photograph: Niall Carson/PA WireMr Baker, one of the leading figures behind the leave campaign in the run up to the 2016 vote, said he regretted now it did not require the support of 60 per cent of those who voted in the often-bitter referendum.
If the campaign to take the UK out of the EU had succeeded, however, a super-majority rule would have meant it would have been accepted by everyone, he added.‘Protectors’ of Lough Neagh stage demonstration in Belfast to save lakeSpeaking in Co Kildare at the half-yearly meeting of the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly on Monday, Mr Baker said: “Would anyone here seriously want a 50 per cent plus one united Ireland result in Northern Ireland? I speak personally,” he told the meeting.
Noting his own support for the UK’s exit from the EU, Mr Baker, who led the Conservatives Party’s pro-Brexit European Research Group, said they had not “properly prepared” for some of the consequences of Brexit. He urged the Irish Government, Northern Ireland’s political parties and others to give the legacy commissioner, former senior PSNI officer Peter Sheridan, a chance to show what the new body can do to bring closure for victims.
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