Nichola Mallon: Fighting the extremists, the strain of politics and the real Boris Johnson
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On this week’s Ireland Unfiltered, the SDLP deputy leader Nichola Mallon joins Dion Fanning to discuss Brexit and where Northern Ireland is now. The party of John Hume is not the force it once was and Nichola Mallon assesses frankly the struggles of the party which is trying to be a voice of moderation at a time when the extremes are heard the loudest. There is a on-the-nose assessment of Boris Johnson, a withering assessment of Sinn Fein’s abstentionist policy and a sobering reflection about attitudes in the south to Northern Ireland.
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