Submitting... Defenders of the status quo argue that Labour shouldn’t undermine their ‘sister party’, the SDLP. But unionists can’t be blamed for not trusting a future Labour government on the Union when their only formal link is to a party committed to ending the Union. It is probably too much to hope that Starmer might overturn two decades of bad policy and have the guts to make his case directly to voters in Northern Ireland. But there is another option that he should consider: reviving the old Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP). The raw materials are already in place. Ulster already has a core of activists who could provide the base for a revived NILP.