{"id":770664,"date":"2026-09-14T19:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/770664\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T19:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:28:14","slug":"uks-unity-threatened-by-pact-between-wales-scotland-and-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/770664\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s unity threatened by pact between Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The leaders of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland signed a pact on Monday that threatens to lead to the break-up of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The first ministers of the three semi-autonomous regions of the UK told Prime Minister Andy Burnham and his government to prepare for constitutional change and that their future lies with the European Union.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cFor people watching across these islands \u2013 for people watching around the world \u2013 there could be no clearer sign that Westminster\u2019s time is coming to an end,\u201d they said in a memorandum of understanding, referring to parliament.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The announcement came about 48 hours after US President Donald Trump waded into the waters of the politically contentious issue when he said he would \u201clove to see\u201d a reunified Ireland during a trip to visit his golf course hosting the Irish Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The leaders of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland signed a pact on Monday that threatens to lead to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19306,934,16669,141,935,59,254394,57,58,2274,3992,16659,50,1647,200,24716,254393,56,54,55,1220],"class_list":["post-770664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-andy-burnham","tag-brexit","tag-democratic-unionist-party","tag-donald-trump","tag-european-union","tag-gb","tag-good-friday-peace-accord","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-ireland","tag-john-swinney","tag-michelle-oneill","tag-news","tag-northern-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-scottish-national-party","tag-sinn-fein-party","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}