• IT will be a close thing between the Labour Party and the Green Party in at least one ward in May’s local elections. Jeremy Corbyn is using his high national prestige to tilt the balance in favour of the Labour candidates.

There are a lot of voters of Irish origin in Islington. Few people in either Northern Ireland or Southern Ireland want a hard border between the two states.

Yet, thanks to the UK’s 2016 referendum vote to pull the UK as a whole out of the European Union, a hard border is just what the Irish people are going to get after Brexit.

I look forward to reading if the Labour Party or the Green Party favour giving the voters of Northern Ireland the opportunity to indicate, via a referendum, whether they wish, after Brexit, for either Northern Ireland to remain in the European Union, or, Northern Ireland to remain in the United Kingdom.

IVOR KENNA
Chair, England branch, Celtic League