Naomi Long’s tweet challenging Kate Hoey over Stormont

Alliance Party of Northern Ireland Party leader

What was posted

Alliance leader Naomi Long criticised Kate Hoey on Twitter after Hoey compared MLAs who wanted to return to Stormont under the Windsor Framework to Nazi collaborators.

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Why it mattered

The exchange was part of a dispute about whether to restore Northern Ireland’s devolved institutions. Long used her response to challenge the language of treachery being used in that debate.

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