Stakes too high to allow one party have backstop veto, warns McDonald

The stakes are too high to allow one political party to have a veto over the backstop, the leader of Sinn Féin, Mary Lou McDonald has warned.

Stakes too high to allow one party have backstop veto, warns McDonald

The stakes are too high to allow one political party to have a veto over the backstop, the leader of Sinn Féin, Mary Lou McDonald has warned.

Speaking from her party’s ‘think tank’, Ms McDonald said that any solution has to be a ‘piece of work’ for the UK and the European Union. It is a dangerous idea that a veto be given to unionists, she added.

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