"There has been a substantial shift towards Irish Unity.... that has been driven by Brexit". Jon Tonge - on his research of Alliance party members. #SundayPolitics | Mark Carruthers

@IrelandsFuture @JonTonge @MarkCarruthers7 Yep. I’m one of them. Pragmatic politics based on equality and the future prosperity and well being of my children and grandchildren’s future.

Some data from the research will be published later/tomorrow by the @BelTel

@JonTonge @MarkCarruthers7 And this is before any campaign begins ….

@JonTonge @MarkCarruthers7 Bollocks, #BBCNI pushing the UI agenda as usual 🙄

@JonTonge @MarkCarruthers7 How can this be-Sure they tell us we are now are in the enviable position of having the ‘best of both worlds’? If they really believed that then why would they want to give that up!?

@ProfTimBale @JonTonge @MarkCarruthers7 Completely understandable given the hard BREXIT selected by the Conservatives.

@JonTonge @MarkCarruthers7 Does the shift in middle ground toward a UI as reflected by Alliance growth simply show the move of liberal nationalists from SDLP to Alliance.

@JonTonge @MarkCarruthers7 One of the reasons for Brexit was to get rid of NI.

@JonTonge @MarkCarruthers7 I'd love to have seen Bin lorrys face when he first seen this...

@JonTonge @MarkCarruthers7 Good.