Arlene Foster: 'a united Ireland is not around the corner'
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:15.6 | Hello and welcome to the special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm joined today by the former DUP First Minister Baroness Arlene Foster. |
| 0:28.8 | Now Baroness Foster obviously this week has been dominated by the news that we should expect to see |
| 0:34.1 | power sharing restore installment shortly. Talk us through your reaction to this news |
| 0:38.9 | after nearly two years without a government functioning Northern Ireland Executive in the region. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah, for sure. I mean, it's like everything you wouldn't start from here and I think the difficulty has been the implementation of the protocol and followed by the Windsor |
| 0:55.4 | Framework has caused great on ease not just within unionism in Northern Ireland but within the business community |
| 1:02.1 | as well given that those documents |
| 1:04.9 | have meant that there are checks between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, even within the |
| 1:10.0 | internal market of the United Kingdom. so Sir Jeffrey Donaldson took his party out of the |
| 1:16.1 | executive two years today actually this is the anniversary of that and has been trying to negotiate with the government since then |
| 1:24.9 | on looking for solutions and I think what has come forward safeguarding the |
| 1:30.2 | Union document which might in the command paper this Wednesday. Obviously isn't everything |
| 1:35.2 | that unionism would have wanted, but this is a political negotiation and I think actually |
| 1:40.8 | Sir Jeffey has done very well. He has dealt with the UK internal market problem. |
| 1:46.0 | And also there's some very good stuff in there about strengthening the union. |
| 1:50.0 | So not just |
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