“No one is ready for a Border poll” and constitutional change would be “destabilising, confusing and ultimately ... disappointing”, the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Mike Nesbitt has told his party conference.
Mr Nesbitt used his speech to outline to delegates why a united Ireland would not be in the interests of people on both sides of the Border and warned it could result in unionists holding the balance of power in the Dáil.
“If there was a new Ireland, there could be maybe 60 new, additional TDs representing what was Northern Ireland in the Irish parliament” with “around half of them” unionist and/or British, the UUP leader said.
“So, unionists could
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