Admittedly Sinn Féin, which stood down its candidate, made Hanna’s margin wider. Both Sinn Féin and the DUP got a bloody nose last week at the hands of the SDLP and Alliance. Foster’s future hangs by a threadFor Johnson, concern about “the North” now means the north of England only. That would suit Sinn Féin, stunting the emergence of the centre ground. In the meantime, beating ideological and constitutional drums is as pointless in the North as hardline Corbynism was in Britain.

Source: The Irish Times December 18, 2019 01:33 UTC