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On Saturday @ClaireHanna will officially become the next Leader of the SDLP.
Claire’s politics is rooted in hope, ambition and bringing people together.
This is an exciting time to get involved in our mission to build something new. We hope you’ll join us!
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The SDLP retweeted
Statement on the resignation of Mike Nesbitt.
I wish Mike well, but tonight's news is a deep indictment of our politics in general, and the antics of the new UUP leader in particular.
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The SDLP retweeted
Three years ago the SDLP was on 6% and written off.
Constructive Opposition, a hugely popular leader and most importantly a hopeful vision for our future has transformed that.
We can build something new on this island.
Join us:
sdlp.ie/join_the_team
EXCLUSIVE: DUP falls to 5-yr-low as UUP becomes most popular unionist party in @LucidTalk poll. SF & Alliance also hit new lows as SDLP makes gains 🧵
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🟢SF 22% (-2)
🔷UUP 16% (+3)
🟧DUP 15% (-3)
🔴SDLP 13% (+2)
◼️TUV 12% (+1)
🟡Alliance 10% (-1)
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
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Today’s LucidTalk poll places the SDLP at a five-year high 🙌
Momentum is building as more people back our shared vision for the future.
Join us and let’s build something new!
sdlp.ie/join_the_team
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Today, SDLP MPs voted to support the Hillsborough Law. A long-overdue step towards truth, accountability and justice.
We stand with every family who fought for honesty in the face of institutional failure and remain committed to a legal duty of candour here in Northern Ireland.
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The SDLP retweeted
“What you’re seeing is a race based pogrom, we are seeing men going door to door asking to 'get the foreigners out' based exclusively on the colour of their skin.”
SDLP leader Claire Hannah criticises the unrest taking place in Belfast.
#Newsnight
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The SDLP retweeted
Just home from dealing with the consequences of tonight's lawlessness.
Perhaps some of the English right wing influencers and local politicians enthusing about these protests would explain to children I met why they have no beds to sleep in tonight.
Utterly disgusted.
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The SDLP retweeted
The images from Scarva are bleak and disturbing. Taunts at peaceful marchers, an MP surrounded by masked men in 2026. Weaponised slurry, for God’s sake.
Political leaders who won’t condemn bullying and intimidation, wherever it comes from, won’t take society anywhere good.
I work constructively with DUP reps who are able and personally very decent people.
But the scenes from Scarva are a reminder of the unmistakable Paisleyite DNA which panders to and connives with thuggery, then plays dumb when called out.
Appalling behaviour.
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Politics across these islands is changing fast.
We're bringing together voices from across these islands to discuss what comes next.
Take a look at our first two speaker announcements for The Future of These Islands: Preparing for Change.
🎟️ Tickets: sdlp.ie/preparingforchange
ALT Poster for SDLP conference "The Future of These Islands: Preparing for Change" at The MAC, Belfast on Thursday 25 June 2026. Speakers featured are Leo Varadkar, former Taoiseach; Claire Hanna MP, SDLP Leader; Jim O'Callaghan TD, Irish Minister; Liz Saville-Roberts MP, Plaid Cymru; Linzi McLaren, activist; and Sinéad Gibney TD, Social Democrats.
ALT Second speaker announcement poster for SDLP conference "The Future of These Islands: Preparing for Change" at The MAC, Belfast on Thursday 25 June 2026. Speakers featured are Conor Murphy, Sinn Féin Senator; Matthew O'Toole MLA, Leader of the Opposition; Adam Jogee MP, UK Labour; Duncan Smith TD, Irish Labour; Cara Hunter MLA, SDLP; and Aoife Murphy, youth activist.
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As politics across these islands continues to change, the question is no longer whether change is coming, but what kind of change we want to build.
In today's Irish Times, @MatthewOToole2 explores what a radical alternative for this island might look like
irishtimes.com/opinion/2026/…
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The SDLP retweeted
From Holywood and on to Crossmaglen, another great @SDLPlive Town Hall, chaired by our dynamic local Councillor @peterbyrnejnr.
Really enjoying hearing from people about how they are hearing politics, and their hopes for the future.
Next stop Cushendall.
ALT SDLP reps speak to a full room in Crossmaglen
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The prospect of Prime Minister Farage should focus minds across this island.
Ireland cannot afford to drift through the next decade. We need serious, responsible and inclusive planning for constitutional change for the kind of future we want to build together. @MatthewOToole2
ALT An image of Matthew O'Toole's article in the Irish Times today about how Ireland must prepare for Prime Minister Farage
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Today the SDLP Opposition moved amendments to improve scrutiny in Stormont.
While other parties supported, SF & DUP teamed up again to thwart new rules to make them show the economic impacts of their cuts, measure the cost of division & show progress on their own commitments.
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There was always an alternative to murder and mayhem.
In the House of Commons last night, @columeastwood set out the human cost of the Troubles and why truth and justice still matter.
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The SDLP retweeted
I'm an SDLP member & representative, whose family were harassed & murdered by loyalist paramilitaries, and I'm now being told that my party is aligning itself with 'extreme voices in loyalism.'
This is embarrassing nonsense which no-one believes and which should be deleted.
The state was designed to keep a nationalist from becoming First Minister. History changed in 2024 when Michelle O’Neill took office.
The SDLP’s proposal to abolish the First Minister title aligns them with extreme voices in loyalism and unionism.
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The SDLP retweeted
⁉️🗣WATCH: 'We want to reframe the North. Not as just some pity party, basket-case, loser place.'
🎥🎤Chief Reporter @jamesgould23 speaking to @SDLPlive Leader @ClaireHanna, alongside Stormont Opposition Leader @MatthewOToole2.
Claire Hanna was asked about a new document from the party which aims to “prepare for a new Ireland.”
The proposals, set out in the “Success by Design” document, explore the potential economic benefits of what that new Ireland could look like, according to the party.
Just months ago, the Secretary of State told Chief Reporter James Gould there was no appetite for constitutional change here.
Claire Hanna says those comments were raised directly with Hilary Benn.
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The SDLP retweeted
Great to meet with Minister @HMcEntee today. Grateful she made the time amid an intense week internationally.
I set out the SDLP's view on the need to urgently reform a broken Stormont and the huge potential opportunities from the Irish EU Presidency.
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Stormont is a political Hotel California, where the future never arrives.
At PMQs, SDLP Leader @ClaireHanna challenged a system that protects stalemate while people pay the price every day.
Today, the Prime Minister signalled engagement on Stormont reform.
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