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00:00 [Applause]
00:07 Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
00:09 [Cheering]
00:11 In case you didn't know it, I'm a Roman Catholic.
00:14 [Laughter]
00:19 And I'm here tonight in an orange horn.
00:22 [Cheering]
00:25 [Applause]
00:30 And I'm here all dressed in tan, both hands.
00:34 And when I realised that we really did have a chance of winning the Brexit referendum
00:41 was when I, as a former Tory MP
00:46 - eight to a minute, that's true -
00:48 [Laughter]
00:49 was when I, as a former Tory MP, went to the north of England
00:55 to what is known as the Red Wall
00:58 and was actually welcomed and cheered in working men's clubs.
01:03 [Laughter]
01:04 And then I knew that people were uniting in a cause
01:11 and that cause was Brexit.
01:14 And now we can all unite, whatever our differences may be.
01:20 We can all unite in a cause and that cause is the Union.
01:26 [Cheering]
01:37 Now, tell me, if you are subject to EU law
01:41 which the rest of the UK is not subject to,
01:45 is that a Union?
01:47 [No]
01:49 And if you are subject to trade restrictions
01:53 which the rest of the UK is not subject to,
01:57 is that a Union?
01:59 [No]
02:00 And that is the point.
02:02 I have been asked several times today by the press and the media,
02:07 I have been asked several times, but look, you know,
02:11 surely the argument is over.
02:14 The DUP has accepted the Windsor Framework.
02:17 Stormont is functioning again, so I've been asked,
02:21 surely therefore it's all over.
02:24 But it cannot be over while there is no proper Union.
02:29 [Cheering]