Frontier spirit
Uncertainty about the border cheers unionists and dismays republicans
“WE BELIEVE in the union,” declared Theresa May in her first speech on the steps of Downing Street on July 13th: “the precious, precious bond between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.” The new prime minister, an Englishwoman, has since visited all three neighbouring countries; on July 25th she landed in Belfast for the last, and perhaps trickiest, of these trips.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Frontier spirit”
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