Kate Hoey reminded of Brexit promises as she claims Protocol ‘destabilised Northern Ireland’
08/04/2021
"Northern Ireland has much to gain from Brexit," Hoey proclaimed in 2016, a month before the referendum.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced calls to bring the parties together for talks after a bus was hijacked and torched in Belfast.
Post-Brexit violence rocks Belfast for another night, threatening region's uneasy political balance
08/04/2021
Belfast, Northern Ireland — Rioters set a hijacked bus on fire and hurled gasoline bombs at police in Belfast in at least the fourth night of serious violence in a week in Northern Ireland, where Brexit has unsettled an uneasy political balance.
Belfast violence: Douglas Ross condemns Northern Ireland violence amid grilling on post-Brexit trade rules
08/04/2021
DOUGLAS Ross has condemned the "shocking" further violence on the streets of Belfast as he was quizzed about post-Brexit trading arrangements that have created economic barriers between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
It took an event unrelated to the Irish Sea border furore to set a match to simmering tensions.
The Stormont Assembly is set to be recalled for an emergency debate following days of violence and disorder in parts of Northern Ireland.
The disturbance in a Loyalist area of the city on Friday evening followed four successive nights of disturbances in the unionist Waterside area of Londonderry.
Unionists criticised for ‘incendiary’ rhetoric as dozens of officers injured in days of unrest.
Labour claims that PM is aiming to invoke emergency powers using the Civil Contingencies Act.
A senior cabinet minister told The Times that the country risked a “violent, popular uprising” if a second referendum overturned the result of the first one.
Operation Yellowhammer: Government no-deal Brexit documents warn of food shortages and riots
11/09/2019
Ministers have been forced to publish details of concerns about public disorder and disruption to medicine and fuel supplies.
Far-right groups threaten to riot at London protests as Boris Johnson warned over language
06/09/2019
‘It’s time to f*** s*** up,’ extremists threaten after parliament moves to block no-deal Brexit.