The Naomi Long One

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

News, Politics

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Nick Robinson talks to Naomi Long, the leader of the Alliance Party and Northern Ireland's Justice Minister, about growing up during the Troubles, the ongoing implications of Brexit and her decision not to identify as nationalist or unionist

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.8	Hello and welcome to Political Thinking.
0:07.8	Once again, London is fighting with Brussels.
0:11.1	Once again, the Prime Minister is having a row
0:14.2	with the courts, with the bishops,
0:16.8	with those someone called in this week's mail
0:20.3	the Remain Stream media.
0:22.8	It does feel almost as if someone's had the idea
0:27.7	before some crucial by-elections are bringing the old Brexit ban
0:32.0	together to play the old popular tunes.
0:36.3	To see if that can bring voters back to Boris Johnson
0:40.9	who voted for him two years ago in that 2019
0:45.0	get Brexit done election.
0:48.1	One of the issues at the centre of this, though,
0:50.6	matters much more than the future of the Prime Minister.
0:54.6	It affects the future of the country itself,
0:58.2	the future in other words, of the United Kingdom.
1:01.9	In particular, whether Northern Ireland will remain
1:06.4	or will leave to join a United Ireland.
1:10.5	Politics in Belfast is currently deadlocked
1:13.4	with unionists refusing to share power with Sinn Fein
1:17.0	who just won the Assembly elections.
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