Provocative speech by Tory leader

The leader of the British Conservative party, David Cameron, has reversed two decades of Tory policy on Ireland by telling the annual conference of the Ulster Unionist Party that the he, like the United Kingdom, has a “selfish and strategic interest” in the north of Ireland.

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