He thinks it risks violence returning to Northern Ireland…
Former Conservative Prime Minister John Major has voiced his serious reservations about a deal between the Tories and the DUP to prop up the Conservative government.
Major said on the BBC’s The World at One, that he’s “concerned about the deal” with the DUP “for the peace process reason and other reasons as well,” citing the risk of a return of violence in Northern Ireland.
He said the peace process is “fragile” and could fall apart if the British government is no longer “impartial”.
“People shouldn’t regard it as a given. It’s not certain, it’s under stress, it’s fragile,” Major said.
He issued a chilling warning about the “hard men still there, lurking in the corners of communities who wish to return to some sort of violence”.
“We need to do everything we conceivably can to ensure that doesn’t happen, and that does require an impartial British government,” he said.
"The reintroduction of anything that resembles a hard border will be catastrophic for the peace process" – Sir John Major #wato
— The World at One (@BBCWorldatOne) June 13, 2017
He continued to later say: “If there are difficulties with the Northern Ireland executive or with any one of a number of things that might well arise during the Brexit negotiations, it’s very important that there’s an honest broker – and the only honest broker can be the UK government.
“And the question arises, if they cease to be seen as such by part of the community in Northern Ireland, then one can’t be quite certain how events will unwind. And that worries me a great deal about the peace process.”
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