Such an audit would help foster a better and more settled relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom in the post-Brexit world we now navigate By @Tobias_Ellwoodtheneweuropean.co.uk
Taken together, Mr. Sunak’s high-stakes diplomacy with Belfast and Brussels, and Nicola Sturgeon’s abrupt departure in Edinburgh, could slow the centrifugal forces that have threatened to unravel the United Kingdom in the aftermath of Brexit. nyti.ms
Brexit, which loyalists in Northern Ireland say is driving a wedge between them and the rest of the United Kingdom, has inflamed sectarian passions to a degree unseen in decades. Some fear an explosion in violence during the marching season in July. nyti.ms
"So I think since we’ve left the European Union, since the vote for Brexit, actually the United Kingdom looks stronger, and the European Union a less attractive proposition." buff.ly
“You had a Brexit that took no account of the wishes of people in Scotland or Northern Ireland,” said a former Irish ambassador to Britain. “But that exists in parallel with a Conservative Party that celebrates the United Kingdom.” nyti.ms
Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain vowed to knit together a country split geographically and generationally by the Brexit debate. But the future now seems uncertain, with restiveness in Scotland and Northern Ireland for leaving the United Kingdom. nyti.ms