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British and a number of EU leaders have expressed support for some form of special status (its details remain unclear), while this week Enda Kenny insisted on a clause in the Brexit deal to allow Northern Ireland to rejoin the EU as part of a united Ireland. It is a sensible precaution, even if no border poll on reunification is on the immediate horizon.

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Post Brexit, Britain will need to find ways to cut expenditure, and that annual subvention to Northern Ireland is an undeniable expense. The DUP regards itself as wedded to the UK, but a cost conscious UK may incline towards divorce. Except DUP votes in Westminster could prove useful to Mrs May, and may stay her hand.

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Change is overdue, but cannot happen until people start voting on policies and stop voting along tribal lines.

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