SDLP Colum Eastwood told Belfast Live: 'We really believe if we're serious about building the case for a united Ireland, we have to bring people with us.'🗣
Unionists have been engaging in "quiet conversations" with an SDLP forum on Irish unity for the past 18 months, the party's leader Colum Eastwood has said.
He said: "When I hear all the time people saying that unionists aren't going to engage in the conversation about the future of the island, well I can tell you for a fact that's not true, because they've been engaging with us over a period of 18 months of quiet conversations. "But we have a very clear role now - moving beyond Brexit, moving into the conversation about the future of the constitution.
From the Northern Ireland Protocol to other thorny issues inside Stormont and exclusive interviews - we’ve got you covered.Mr Eastwood dismissed recent opinion polls which suggest SDLP support has dipped further since elections last May when the party lost four MLA seats, dropping from third-largest party at Stormont to fifth-largest.
He added: "I think people will be very happy with the slate of candidates that we have, and people will be surprised at the result that we get." The SDLP leader said a tweet from the party which announced that Mr McCusker and Charlotte Carson would run in Oldpark was later deleted "because it hadn't been ratified yet".
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