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Interesting, timely intervention by UK former PM Gordon Brown. I don't agree that a united Ireland is "inevitable'' if only because history teaches us that nothing is inevitable in politics! I do believe it likely - demographics and geopolitics bends toward it. But, we have to work for it and not assume it can happen organically or by osmosis. I do agree with Brown that it will be a 'long process'. Stage 1 - build a stable majority in the North and greater understanding of the project in the South before a referendum takes place. Stage 2 - win the referendum. Stage 3 - transition and integration of the two jurisdictions. It will take decades. And yes, there will always be other pressing issues to be resolved - and resolved they should be. This is much much bigger than that - the political project of our generation. Building a New and Agreed Ireland. Éire Aontaithe. Let's do it.

10 years ago, I voted with 17,410,741 others to leave the European Union. This was the poster I had on my window, produced by the Labour Party in 1975. I did so because, as a democratic socialist, I believe that the ability to plan our national economy should be in the hands of governments directly accountable to British voters at general elections. Nothing in the decade since has shaken that core belief. In fact, as the years have gone by, I have become more convinced of its importance.