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Red Lines

Red, White and New

Red Lines

BBC

Government

4.674 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

What would unionism look like if it realigned into two new parties? A traditional one and the other more socially liberal. Darran Marshall asks the experts.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of Red Lines. As we know very well, things are far from straightforward in the world of unionism these days.

0:08.8

There are many different shades of opinion on many different topics. So could the unionist side of the house do with a bit of a political reset, as the former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, Mike Nesbitt, suggested this week,

0:21.5

would two new unionist parties, one based around more traditional views and one more socially

0:27.1

progressive, prove to be something of a game changer? We asked Darren Marshall to sit down

0:32.6

with Gareth Gordon, Suzanne Breen and Alex Kane to divvy up the current crop of politicians into these two new,

0:40.0

notional parties, just for a bit of fun.

0:43.0

Keep listening to find out where they think Ian Paisley and Tom Elliott might end up,

0:47.6

but our expert panel begin with the veteran DUP MP Gregory Campbell.

0:52.6

This is an easy one, I think, and this is a trick question.

0:55.9

He's in the traditional party.

0:57.7

Do you all agree?

0:58.7

I think Gregory's a wee bit of enigma

1:00.4

because he is quite close to Geoffrey Donaldson and DUP headquarters

1:05.7

and a lot of things.

1:06.5

He's regarded among the MPs as a safe pair of hands

1:08.8

in the way that say Ian Paisley and Sammy Wilson wouldn't be, but I probably do agree with Garth. I would put it in traditional.

1:15.3

He's an enigma, but there are other enigmas that you're going to show us.

1:20.0

Before he started. I think I'm going to enter one caveat in this game. I think we may decide

1:25.7

where they're going to go, but in terms of where they

1:27.8

would put themselves, a lot will depend on what they think the electoral chances of the other

1:31.6

party are. Because if you say to someone who's already elected somewhere, a key player

1:34.7

somewhere, say, would you like to join this new party and I think it's not going to win

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