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<p>Former education minister and DUP MLA Peter Weir said Sinn Féin's had pretented that a border poll was not a priority until their manifesto was published. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA</p>

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<p>Jack O'Connor will say: 'I believe that a new constitution should specify a significant minimum requirement in terms of the number of ‘Unionist’ ministers and the proportion of cabinet seats they would occupy, so as to avoid any suggestion of tokenism." Picture: Jim Coughlan</p>

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