McGuinness Calls for Calm and Measured Response to ’Nasty Rhetoric’ on Brexit

The EU is being urged not to match the ‘nasty rhetoric’ surrounding Brexit emerging from the Conservative Party Conference in Britain.

It follows comments by the UK Foreign Secretary comparing the European Union to the Soviet Union.

While the DUP Leader Arlene Foster told the Daily Telegraph that the Good Friday Agreement could be altered to take account of Brexit and it was not ‘sacrosanct’.

The DUP is holding an event at the Conservative Party conference today.

Vice President of the European Parliament and Fine Gael MEP for Midlands Nort-West, Mairead Mc Guinness, says Europe must remain calm and measured in its response to the comments in recent days:

Out words:  nasty rhetoric 

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