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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jonathan McCambridge

Supermajority comments ‘not a shift in UK Government policy over unity poll’

PA Wire

There has been no change in the UK Government’s position towards a referendum on Irish unity, Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris has insisted.

Appearing before the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, Mr Heaton-Harris also stressed that there is currently no basis to suggest that a majority of people in the region wish to separate from the United Kingdom.

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