Johnson’s deal and Ireland
Sinn Féin has welcomed Boris Johnson’s new Brexit formula as a “least worst” option. It expresses a “cautious welcome for the perceived maintenance of the all-Ireland economy provided by the [new] Brexit deal”. At first sight that seems an odd about-turn. Although in the 1970s Sinn Féin was vehemently against the EU, it long ago changed that position, and in 2016 and since has been strongly against Brexit. It still says “there is no such thing as a good Brexit”. And Sinn Féin has long had a leftish colouration on social issues. Johnson’s new formula weakens Theresa May’s already-vague...