58% of Sinn Fein voters and 54% of DUP voters want the North’s new abortion regime to allow the procedure only when a mother’s life is at risk. That’s according to a new poll organised by the University of Liverpool and Britain’s Economic and Social Research Council. The results indicate a clear rejection of the abortion framework the UK Government wants to impose on the North.

A spokesperson for Right To Life UK, Catherine Robinson, said the polling demonstrates that the Conservative Government has no mandate from the people of Northern Ireland to go any further than what is legally required by the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019.

The poll of 2,000 people also showed that only 5% of all voters support introducing abortion through to 24-weeks – which is what the Conservative Government has proposed.