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✍ The Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said her party will oppose any Stormont veto as part of a new Northern Ireland-only backstop. Speaking at the party’s think-in today, Ms McDonald said that the DUP “must not have a veto on protecting Ireland’s basic rights”. The idea of a role for Stormont in a new Northern Ireland-only backstop – to replace the existing all-UK backstop, which commits the country to remaining under EU rules in the absence of a better solution – has been mooted in recent days in London. However, Ms McDonald said: “There should be no veto in the protection of Irish interests ... The DUP, the assembly, nobody can have a veto on what are very, very necessary bottom-line protections. They’re not green protections, or orange, it’s not a nationalist or a unionist demand, this is the position of Ireland, this is the position that has been articulated consistently since Brexit came to pass and this is the position that now must be adhered to .” Speaking to journali ...
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