“My message to Sinn Fein is clear. The settlement train is leaving. I want you on that train. But it is leaving anyway and I will not allow it to wait for you.”

—  Tony Blair

David McKittrick, "Blair offers a fresh start for Irish peace", The Independent, 17 May 1997, p. 1.
Speech at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Show, 16 May 1997.
1990s

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