The woman of the moment, @MaryLouMcDonald making a policy statement on banking and insurance in Dublin. It’s domestic policies, the fact they’re different from the duopoly, which is giving them real momentum...#GE2020 
McDonald: “People aren’t fools. @MichealMartinTD can huff and puff but he’s been in govt with @LeoVaradkar for 4 years. There isn’t a whit of difference between them. People want to end the monopoly of power these two parties have had for 100 years and they see SF as the change.”
McDonald rules out confidence and supply: “it’s a con. If you’re in government you’re in government.”
Everyone is ruling out everything in #ge2020. Someone is (probably) going to have to move in the end..:
Everyone is ruling out everything in #ge2020. Someone is (probably) going to have to move in the end..:
.@MaryLouMcDonald tells me that if the UK leaves the EU without a trade deal at the end of the year, she will push for a border poll in NI as soon as possible. With a deal, she says she thinks it should still take place within five years. #GE2020
Mary Lou McDonald: “If Boris Johnson is watching this, I’d say this to him: The north of Ireland did not consent to Brexit. The northern counties of our island have been coerced out of the EU against the democratic wishes of its people.”
Full quotes from my conversation with @MaryLouMcDonald here:
