The Belfast Newsletter, 12 January
Speaking on BBC News NI’s The View programme, Sir Robert Buckland was asked if the “old-style direct rule of the past” was off the table.
The Conservative MP resplied: “I think so.
“I think anybody who like many of us will have remembered and read and committed parts of the process of the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement to memory, will know there is no going back to that previous dispensation.
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Tory colleague David Jones, the deputy chair of the European Research Group says its MPs would oppose such a move. The former Welsh Secretary told the News Letter: “Any involvement by the Irish government in the administration of Northern Ireland would be unacceptable to most, if not all, Conservative colleagues”.
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