NORMAN Tebbit, the former Tory cabinet minister whose wife was seriously injured in the IRA's Brighton bomb, has predicted a united Ireland.
Lord Tebbit outside the Grand Hotel in Brighton in 2009. Picture by Chris Ison/PA Wire
27th September, 2022.
The Conservative life peer, who famously urged jobseekers to "get on your bike", said that “it looks more likely than not that in the not too distant future” there will be a united Ireland.
The 91-year-old former minister, whose late wife Margaret was paralysed from the chest down in the 1984 bombing of the Grand Hotel, aired his thoughts in the Daily Telegraph earlier this week.
He identified trends in the latest census that increased the growing likelihood of a united Ireland.
"All in all, it looks more likely than not that in the not too distant future, the province will become part of the Republic,” he wrote.
“Will that have any effect on Scottish or Welsh nationalism? Will King Charles III end up as just the King of England? And will my great grandchildren grow up in an unstable England and look for safety within a European state?
“I am glad to be in my nineties rather than my fifties.”
In 1999, Lord Tebbit spoke out against the plans to disband the RUC, saying he was against throwing the force's name and badge "into the modernisation trash can".
He said the RUC had been "the thin green line standing between bloody anarchy and the rule of law".
With many thanks to the: Irish News for the original publication.
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