Fintan O’Toole
How Ulster Unionists Block Brexit
If, as the Democratic Unionist Party insists, Northern Ireland can be treated no differently from the rest of the UK, then all of the UK must stay largely within the existing European Union rules. In which case, Brexit itself is pointless. The DUP’s backward-looking Britishness thus stands in the way of Brexit’s English revolution.
June 11, 2018