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Durkan si concentra su Westminster

MP to concentrate on Westminster

Mark Durkan, SDLPFOYLE MP Mark Durkan has vowed to concentrate more heavily on Westminster should he be successfully re-elected in a general election next year.

Mr Durkan shocked supporters with the announcement he would step down as SDLP leader after the election.

But he said he has no intention of taking a back seat in future.

“My reason for concentrating at a personal level on Westminster is that if – on the basis of the dual mandate – that I decided not to go to Westminster, all sorts of people would have said that I was ducking out of a challenge in Foyle or that the SDLP couldn’t win the seat here,” said the local MP.

“I had to make the call to fight the Westminster election.

“In the circumstances where there are serious issues affecting this economy that are going to be unfortunately decided more at Westminster than they are at Stormont – in terms of Derry’s interests and in terms of the wider economic and social interests of this region – I believe I am best spending the coming period at Westminster,” he added.

“Its not where I want to be in the overall scheme of things – my heart and head is fully with the institutions here but I know in terms of the banking crisis, in terms of the issues that we are going to face with social security, in terms of the impact on the Northern Ireland budget – not just the money the Executive will have but what its allowed to do with that money – that those are going to be major issues at Westminster.

“I feel the biggest, single, distinctive role that I can play in the next few years is going to be there.”

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René Querin

Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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