Naomi Long had been promoted as one of the guest speakers for a number of months
Naomi Long has caused a stir after she announced that she will no longer be participating in next week's Ireland's Future event at the SSE Arena and will be replaced by North Belfast MLA Nuala McAllister.
"The Alliance Party is entitled to have no position on whether we rejoin the EU via a new Ireland, but voters deserve better than the wink/nudge opportunism its leader is indulging. At times Alliance representatives are keen to associate themselves with the conversation on our future, at other times they seem to tactically run from it and on other occasions they revert to implying that anyone with any constitutional aspiration is sectarian and tribal," he said.
Meanwhile, the DUP's Gordon Lyons said Naomi Long has further questions to answer about agreeing to attend the event in the first place. "The Alliance Party makes great play of its supposed constitutional neutrality, yet their actions tell a story of being Sinn Fein’s wee helpers. This was confirmed when Sinn Fein withdrew from constituencies to help Alliance candidates.
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