Britain must offer border poll on Northern Ireland if hard Brexit – Sinn Fein

Prima News

July 31, 2019

Image result for Britain must offer border poll on Northern Ireland if hard Brexit - Sinn Fein — Northern Ireland’s Sinn Fein politicians Mary Lou McDonald and Michelle O’Neill talk to the media outside the Houses of Parliament, as uncertainty over Brexit continues, in London, Britain, Britain, April 8, 2019.

Britain would have to offer a referendum on Northern Ireland splitting from the United Kingdom if the government pursues a so-called hard Brexit, the head of Northern Ireland’s largest nationalist party said on Wednesday.

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald, who will meet Prime Minister Boris Johnson later on Wednesday said it would be “quite scandalous” for the government to not grant a border poll if it pursued a no-deal Brexit.

“I don’t know now how Britain could crash this part of Ireland out of the European Union … and with a straight face suggest to any of us who live on this island that we should not be given the democratic opportunity … to decide our future,” she said. “I think that would be quite scandalous.”