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Make it work to make northern ireland work. two years after covid, post—brexit, we want to make northern ireland work and we will do that. a majority of politicians potentially going back into this assembly, if they can get back together again, who actually support the protocol or if they had issues with it can work with it within the context of a functioning assembly. what in the alliance party would you say to the dup who are worried about their constitutional position and feel squeezed by the success of sinn fein? i think it's important that we realise it is a union between the uk and eu....

Fein, for all that it has put 1% of votes onto its stature in this election, has never reached beyond the catholic community to recruit or convert unionists to their ideology. similarly, the dup, the unionist party has made a small effort in that direction because of the democratic unionist party and tuv have never made any effort to convert a catholic, an irish catholic or someone from an irish catholic or someone from an irish catholic background to their thinking. so how do they ever expect to grow beyond their communal, factional base customer they cannot do it. brian rowan said before you...

Possibility in this election they could double their number of seats at stormont. so the surge has become at stormont. so the surge has become a super surge if you like in terms of seat. where it's important is that if we get, when we get to a border poll at some point in the future, neither green or orange, those two tribes that are discussed within our politics, can win a border poll on their own. so that the third pillar becoming much more influential in our stormont politics but further down the road in the event of a border poll, they will decide which way that vote will go. the results o...

Difference of the unionism, because unionists are now going to be a diminishing minority. find unionists are now going to be a diminishing minority. and when you sa that, diminishing minority. and when you say that. are _ diminishing minority. and when you say that. are you — diminishing minority. and when you say that, are you alluding _ diminishing minority. and when you say that, are you alluding to - diminishing minority. and when you say that, are you alluding to the - say that, are you alluding to the prospect then of unification referendum?— prospect then of unification referendum?...

The eu protocol. so there is no great incentive forjeffrey donaldson to go straight back in. even though many people, notjust those who voted for sinn fein but anyone who wants to see devolved power—sharing with say this is hugely undemocratic. northern ireland needs a functioning power—sharing government. it's been too often prone to collapse. only two of the six assembly terms to date have been completed wholesale. the other four there have been collapses in foster power—sharing has always been unstable here. it is as unstable as ever in that we don't know if the dup will go back into ...