Legacy and Reconciliation?

The Labour Party abstained on the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill and on the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill, and it has no policy of repealing either, so ignore any promise to repeal the Northern Ireland amnesty.

Still, no MP who had not been elected as a Conservative voted for that amnesty, and no MP who had been elected as a Conservative voted against it. The SDLP's MPs take the Labour whip. Sections of the Labour Left, and at least one very right-wing MP currently suspended from the party, have Sinn Féin connections to rival even the Royal Family's. The Liberal Democrats have close ties to the Alliance Party.

But no one who was even generically a Tory won a seat in Northern Ireland in 2019, and one of their two second places was still 12,721 votes behind. One of their third places was where there were only three candidates, and they did a great deal worse than that in most places, where they stood at all. In any case, would a UUP MP have voted for this measure? They have not taken the Conservative whip since 1972.

It would always have been impossible to have become or remained Prime Minister if you had said that the Union with Scotland was anything other than permanent and non-negotiable. But it would always have been impossible to have become or remained Prime Minister if you had said that the Union with Northern Ireland was permanent or non-negotiable. If you doubt this, then cite the occasion on which any Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition ever has said that.