Tessa Fleming

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The Indo Daily · Would a border poll actually deliver a united Ireland? · 4 Sep 2026 podcast

know.

Obviously his comments had people agreeing with them and then obviously people criticising what he had to say.

The Irish government a week later has jumped in.

What were some of the things that they had to say about his comments?

Before we get into the the detail, let's just talk about the Good Friday Agreement as a whole because

Obviously it was agreed.

But is it fair to say that there was a degree of creative ambiguity, let's say, involved in getting it across the line?

For a border poll to take place, as you said, it's up to the Secretary of State to determine whether or not it is likely that would pass.

Now how that's calculated.

How that's

But I suppose a border poll there's been so much talk about it over the last couple of years.

But then when you kind of think back to twenty fourteen, there was the Scottish independence referendum.

That was huge.

And I suppose at the time there was a lot of talk about how people thought that would succeed and get put through, but ultimately it failed.

So what were the consequences and what was the fallout from that loss?

I suppose when Andy Burnham made those comments last week, a lot of people were miffed over the fact that well, as you say, it was his first visit to Northern Ireland as Prime Minister and that he was so blunt about a border pole and about Irish unity.

But were his comments surprising, do you think?

So do you think, just given Helen McInty's comments then this week, that w we must prepare for a border poll, you know, is there a divide opening up between UK politics and Irish politics?

Or do you think that maybe the Irish government is letting the British Prime Minister kind of

Push them around on this topic.

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