Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 4:44 pm on 10 May 1982.

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Photo of Mr John Biggs-Davison Mr John Biggs-Davison , Epping Forest 4:44, 10 May 1982

I had not intended to spend too long on this point, but I am grateful to my hon. Friend for completing the story. That shows that a large majority not only of Protestants, but of Catholics, favour the British link, whereas 45 per cent., slightly less than half the Catholic minority, favour the solution that my right hon. and hon. Friends and myself favour on the Northern Ireland constitutional question.