Colum Eastwood outlined a vision for the SDLP to recover its position at the party's conference in Derry on Saturday. Photograph: Oliver McVeigh“We’re not doing mergers with anybody, the SDLP is standing on its own two feet,” he said.
At her party conference in Cork on Saturday, Ms Bacik said: “Working with our sister party, the SDLP, we want to deliver on our shared ambition to achieve a social democratic vision, across 32 counties.Speaking to BBC Northern Ireland’s Sunday Politics, Mr Eastwood said the SDLP had a “very good relationship” with the Irish Labour Party but when it came to a merger he had “ruled it out”.
“We want to talk to every single community across this island about the kind of country that we can build,” he said.
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