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"He called for the “right attitude” from ministers, emphasising you do not get everything you want in the current set-up, and all have a “responsibility to reach as much consensus as you can to deliver for people”. “Building common cause for common sense has many strands to it – good government, public services, ensuring that climate change doesn’t become an inhibitor to public safety and infrastructural improvements in Northern Ireland, on gender, on conversion therapy, on a whole host of issues… “We will stand up and say what we believe to be the right thing, even sometimes when it’s unfashionable or unpopular in the mainstream. “It’s amazing just how many people from rural backgrounds, more traditional backgrounds, people who, even in the past, would have voted for Sinn Féin or the SDLP, just struggle to understand what those parties are doing on their behalf, and they look to us and say, ‘Actually, you and your colleagues, you’re talking common sense’.”"

Framing: assertive · First seen: 2026-09-18 · Last seen: 2026-09-18 · Spread: 1 articles