SDLP: Hello FF and goodbye Labour

The SDLP must ratify its alliance with Fianna Fáil at a conference on February 9

Colum Eastwood, leader of the SDLP

The recently announced arrangement for Fianna Fáil to provide the SDLP with access to its polling, research and constituency intelligence operation in order to boost the Northern party’s electoral prospects and help the cash-strapped SDLP fundraise is likely to spell the end of the SDLP’s alliance with the Labour Party in Dublin and the British Labour Party.

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood has not spoken to Irish Labour leader Brendan Howlin in several months. ...