Professor Peter Shirlow:

Nobody has a crystal ball, but I think it has been made clear that there is a shift or a mood change in the personalities. I encourage everyone to watch "This England" on Disney Channel, which is about Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings, and things definitely could not get worse. I think in this Prime Minister there is clearly going to be more pragmatism. Anybody who was at the British-Irish Association conference in Oxford this year would certainly have heard the mood that Dr. Petit was talking about, and that potentially there were solutions and capacity. The issue with the constitutional question is one I have to bite on. In 1998 Sinn Féin and the SDLP got 39% of the vote. This year they got 39% of the vote. Therefore, I do not think Brexit is the constitutional steamroller that people are imagining it to be. We have to remember-----