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"Through this pact, he has linked his party to identity politics and tribal headcounts rather than dealing with the issues and building a modern, shared society," Dr Farry said. "The Conservatives are now signed up to a message that what matters above all else is that unionists are returned in elections irrespective of the issues."

A few years ago, however, a ranking member of the British royal family, whose members aren't supposed to get involved with politics, committed an indiscretion by telling me that he thought devolved parliaments were a terrible idea because they could break up the United Kingdom. The Welsh would stay with England, and maybe the Northern Irish, he said, but the Scots probably would not.