What they said: Politicians react to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Belfast Telegraph protocol article

May 17, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    -16% Somewhat Liberal

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Bias Score Analysis

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Sentiments

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"What we will be telling him today is very clear, that what he and his government have done over the past year or two is to create instability in Northern Ireland, rather than lead people to a set of solutions post-Brexit that work."
Positive
14% Conservative
"And what the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary seem to me to be doing is to present a reasonable offer to the European Union on a system which suspends part of the protocol, yes, but still delivers compliance arrangements to protect the single market while assuaging unionist concerns about how the protocol has been operating up to now."
Positive
6% Conservative
"There is no need for it and if there is to be a risked-based approach to goods entering the European Union, that's the direction of travel we should be going in."
Positive
4% Conservative
"The fact that Northern Ireland is 0.02"
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0% Conservative
"This is a man who famously wrote two articles, one in support of Brexit, the other opposing it, before the referendum was called in 2016, he told the BBC."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Van Hollen, 63, tweeted, I'm feeling much better but will follow doctors' orders and curtail my schedule for the next few days."
Positive
14% Conservative
"Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., was giving speech on Sunday when he suffered a stroke onstage and was rushed to the hospital."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Democrats see the race to replace Pesylvania's retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey as one of their best opportunities to pick up a Senate seat this fall."
Positive
4% Conservative
"According to Maryland's constitution, the Republican Gov. Larry Hogan would need to fill a Senate vacancy within 30 days... but he would also need to choose someone recommended by the outgoing senator's political party -- the Democrats, in this case."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Even if Van Hollen had resigned, he still would have left the Senate's balance of power intact."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"In other words, the Democrats look unlikely to experience any short-term fallout from Van Hollen's stroke."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Van Hollen is also ruing for election to a second term this year, but the race looks uncompetitive."
Negative
-36% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : What we will be telling him today is very clear, that what he and his government have done over the past year or two is to create instability in Northern Ireland, rather than lead people to a set of solutions post-Brexit that work.
53% : "And what the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary seem to me to be doing is to present a reasonable offer to the European Union on a system which suspends part of the protocol, yes, but still delivers compliance arrangements to protect the single market while assuaging unionist concerns about how the protocol has been operating up to now."
52% : There is no need for it and if there is to be a risked-based approach to goods entering the European Union, that's the direction of travel we should be going in."
50% : "The fact that Northern Ireland is 0.02% of the combined GDP of the United Kingdom and the European Union, there must be mechanisms to sort this out," he told the BBC.
48% : "This is a man who famously wrote two articles, one in support of Brexit, the other opposing it, before the referendum was called in 2016," he told the BBC.

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