The independent commentary on British political affairs.
The independent commentary on British political affairs.
May 2008
Vol. 11, No. 11
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Six months ago, on the eve of the St Andrews negotiation of October 2006, I argued in Parliamentary Brief that the impossible — a deal between Sinn Fein and the DUP — was now no longer that. The reason: that Adams, struggling in the Irish Republic opinion polls, needed the boost of entry into a power-sharing government in the North before the Republic’s June 2007 election.
In such a context he seemed likely to move the republican movement to…
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