SDLP’s ‘big idea’ is catching on

IN the 1970s, the SDLP embarked on a journey of both hope and necessity to try and change the face of politics on the North and on this island.

Now, 37 years later, the SDLP brand of constitutional and peaceful democratic politics has triumphed.

The advocates of physical force republicanism and ‘not-an-inch’ unionism have conceded defeat and now fully embrace the principles of equality,