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Colonial overlord May ‘right to visit during talks’
Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley meets with British Prime Minister Theresa May

BRITAIN’S Northern Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley insisted today that her country’s Prime Minister Theresa May was right to visit the colony while sensitive power-sharing talks were taking place.

A tentative deal fell apart 48 hours after Ms May visited Belfast.

Even the right-wing Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which Ms May bribed with £1 billion to prop up her administration in London, criticised her decision to visit.

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