The Brexiteer and GB News presenter Nigel tells the News Letter editor Ben Lowry that his views on a united Ireland have been distorted. He was at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester on Monday October 1 2023
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00:00 No, no. So Lord Empey said that you had let down people.
00:02 I saw what he said. So what I said at lunch with the Irish Times was there was no prospect of a
00:08 United Ireland in the foreseeable future. No prospect whatsoever. The North doesn't want to
00:13 join the Republic and the Republic wouldn't want the trouble the North brings. What it did say was
00:18 I can't foresee where we're going to be in 100 years time. I think I was slightly misquoted
00:22 by the Irish Times, quite frankly. And as for Lord Empey, his reaction, I thought was frankly
00:29 pretty vulgar, misquoted, misguided and wrong. And what about his reference to you saying that
00:33 you were friendly with Mary Lou McDonald? I stood by her on a platform in the Irish
00:40 referendum. If Empey is so tribal, so small minded, that he can't understand that sometimes
00:48 communities need to come together, maybe that's why our problems have lasted for so long.
00:52 And last question is, are you, is some, are you ambivalent about a United Ireland?
00:56 No, no, I support the Union. I've always supported the Union. I'm friends with the
01:01 Because there is a feeling that Brexiteers don't really care about the United Ireland.
01:04 I'm a friend of the Paisley family. I think the Windsor framework is a disaster.
01:10 There is, despite that, there is no prospect of a United Ireland for the next 100 years.
01:16 After that, who knows? If the Irish Times misquoted me on that, that's not my fault.