Shadow minister’s border poll remarks alarm Northern Ireland’s unionists

Labour's Peter Kyle says he would be prepared to call referendum on Irish unity if certain conditions were met

Northern Ireland unionists have expressed alarm after the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, Peter Kyle, said he would be prepared to call a referendum on Irish unity if certain conditions were met.

Kyle would set out the criteria for calling a border poll if Labour were in power, he told the BBC's Sunday Politics show at his party's conference.