The SDLP and leader Colum Eastwood are facing a decisive election. Image: Niall Carson/PA Archive/PA Images The SDLP and leader Colum Eastwood are facing a decisive election. Image: Niall Carson/PA Archive/PA Images A GENERAL ELECTION can’t come quick enough for the SDLP.
It suffered something of an existential crisis since then, negotiating a somewhat ambiguous partnership with Fianna Fáil – a relationship that didn’t stop former leader Mark Durkan running for Fine Gael in the European elections. Hanna has a good chance. Former SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell lost out to the DUP by only 2,000 votes in 2017 and hopes are high that the party will suffer for its dogged approach to Brexit and the backstop since 2017.Even if there is a deal by the time of the next election, Hanna thinks this focus still make sense. “I compare it to after devolution in 1998. There was still plenty to do in Westminster,” she says.
The SDLP has high hopes that Claire Hanna can take a seat in Belfast South Source: Liam McBurney/PA Archive/PA Images The party, which he says has succeeded in attracting younger candidates but has done less well in enamoring younger voters, will need to make all the use it can of its remain, non-abstention bona fides in the coming weeks.
Pro-remain, anti-sectarian and without the baggage of Sinn Féin, the party has been attracting younger voters particularly in the east of Northern Ireland.
You think by now the electorate would vote on policies but not bigotry tribalism. Still them and us divide but hopefully one day the penny will drop
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