Long-delayed report on flags and culture to be published + Labour urged to clarify stance on border poll after Haigh departure

Dec 1, 2021

Michael Cousins

Acting Managing Editor

Welcome to your update from the News Letter

In the news today:

* A long-delayed report on flags and culture in Northern Ireland is set to be published by Stormont’s Executive Office

* Fishermen from Northern Ireland would be foreigners in their own ports if the Northern Ireland Protocol is fully implemented, ministers have been warned.

* A DUP MP has said his party would oppose any school shutdown in the run-up to Christmas, after a teaching union official called for a ‘circuit-breaker’.

* Staff at Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University are taking part in a UK-wide three-day strike action over pay and conditions.

* The Labour Party has been urged to clarify if it would campaign to retain the Union in the event of a border poll, following comments from its outgoing shadow Northern Ireland secretary.

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