Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 March 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Working Group on Unification Referendums: Discussion

Dr. Alan Renwick:

Perhaps I will respond to Ms Hanna. It is not an issue that we cover in the report. My impression is that on the whole, when politicians in Great Britain are thinking about the union, they are not thinking terribly much about Northern Ireland. Primarily, they are thinking about how to keep Scotland in the union. Certainly, Gordon Brown, who is a unionist Scot, cares deeply about Scotland remaining in the UK. That is the conversation that is happening. I do not get the sense that there is terribly much thought going into Northern Ireland's future within the union. I do not know if any of my colleagues want to disagree with that or embellish it.

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