[obpress] NEWS FROM OPEN BRITAIN: Hain - Labour must resist a hard border in Ireland
- From: Adrian McMenamin <adrian.mcmenamin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Adrian McMenamin <adrian.mcmenamin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:54:15 +0000
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE, MONDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2018
Hain – Labour must resist a hard border in Ireland
The leader of Northern Ireland’s Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP),
Colum Eastwood MLA, has written to Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to urge
him to resist a hard Brexit and to maintain “full Single Market and Customs
Union access”.
Mr Eastwood, who represents Foyle in the Northern Ireland Assembly, warns that
Brexit has the potential to “dismantle” the peace process in Ireland.
His warning comes on the day the Labour Shadow Cabinet Brexit subcommittee are
meeting to decide the party’s attitude to Brexit.
Commenting, Lord Hain, leading supporter of the Open Britain campaign, said:
“Colum Eastwood of our sister party, the SDLP, is right to warn of the dangers
Brexit poses to the Northern Ireland peace process and to urge Labour to do all
it can to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland.
“As Labour’s Brexit subcommittee meets, the issue of Ireland, and protecting
the peace process, must be to the forefront of discussion.
“Labour must stand firmly behind the agreements between the British and Irish
governments and the Northern Ireland parties on which the peace process rests.
Already Brextremists on the Conservative benches are calling for these to be
torn up precisely because they stand in the way of a hard Brexit.
“Labour must lead the resistance any moves to a hard border and to insist that
Theresa May stands up to the extremists in her party who insist on dragging her
ever further to the right.”
/ends
Notes to editors
More details on Mr Eastwood’s letter can be read here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-43111710
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