The Conservatives want Northern Ireland out of the UK, a veteran unionist politician has said amid concerns over post-Brexit trading arrangements. / Lord Kilclooney levelled the claim as the Tory Government was urged to be honest about the impact of a revamped deal with Brussels, which critics argue retains a border in the Irish Sea.
Kate Hoey, the Labour Brexiteer and erstwhile minister for sport, has been criticised for sharing a fake quote about the European Union on Twitter.
The former MP for Vauxhall suggested an Irexit would soon be on the cards after the UK left the EU. How wrong she was!
Baroness Hoey criticised after comparing MLAs wanting Stormont return to Nazi collaborators
30/03/2023
Baroness Kate Hoey has been criticised for comparing MLAs wanting to return to Stormont under the new post-Brexit deal to Nazi collaborators.
Returning to Stormont would mean ‘collaboration’ with EU as ‘colonial government’, says Kate Hoey.
Kate Hoey criticised after comparing MLAs accepting Windsor Framework to 'Nazi collaborators'
30/03/2023
Former Labour MP Kate Hoey has been criticised after likening politicians prepared to return to Stormont under the Windsor Framework to Nazi collaborators under the Vichy regime in wartime France.
Unilateral extension over checks on chilled meats likely to be rejected by Brussels.
Former Labour MP calls on government to suspend Northern Ireland protocal in Brexit deal
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.
“Will he (Gove) make clear that the Protocol is causing societal and economic damage to the union, and will he press on with the alternative arrangements that he previously supported and signed up to?”
Kate Hoey, the Labour Brexiteer and erstwhile minister for sport, has been criticised for sharing a fake quote about the European Union on Twitter.
Hardline Brexiteers have been accused of “jeopardising” peace in Northern Ireland after they made dramatic claims the Good Friday Agreement was “not sustainable”. / Former Northern Ireland Secretary Lord Hain called Hoey’s intervention a “reckless slur”.
Brexiteers who claimed the NHS would receive an extra £350m after Brexit have been condemned for voting down an amendment demanding an analysis of the impact of exiting the EU on the health service.