DUP MP Sammy Wilson calls on US president to ‘show us some respect’ after Biden says he wanted to ensure UK kept its Good Friday commitments
An MP from Northern Ireland’s biggest pro-UK party has condemned Joe Biden after the US president made contentious remarks about his recent visit to the territory.
The comments, relayed in a White House transcript, came as Biden addressed a Democratic party gathering in New York on Wednesday. “If you believe that there should be a special relationship between the US and UK, then at least show us some respect,” Wilson told London’s Evening Standard newspaper on Thursday.
The DUP, which wants Northern Ireland to remain part of the UK, is currently boycotting the region’s power-sharing government over bitter disagreements on post-Brexit trade.
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