Sunningdale

This was a hardened resolve that he knew was a new force on the landscape.

As head of the Northern Irish Labour Party, the NILP, he had been involved in supporting Sunningdale as a sister socialist party he had accessed at Orme.

The NILP had been the only real force of opposition under the old Stormont regime.

With the coming of the civil rights campaigns and the creation of the SDLP, which became the natural home for left-wing Catholics, the NILP had in effect been hollowed out.