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| | New Statesman: Mo Mowlam: the Oprah Winfrey of Ulster, huggy-kissy Mo has won over the nationalists - but can she keep ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Mowlam, 49, is hailed as a secular saint because she is seen to have succeeded in bringing peace to Northern Ireland in her term of office. |
 | | In keeping the media on her side, Mowlam has, outside of Northern Ireland and the Republic, managed to suppress until now the vast ambivalence of the government's position in the Agreement, and the sickening gulf that is opening up between pledges and delivery on the part of the IRA. |
 | | Yet Mowlam, being the friendly chew-the-fat, open-door secretary of state, has shown nationalists and republicans a different style of British politician - a huggy-kissy figure who treats them as if they all were on a TV personal-revelation show, a kind of Oprah Winfrey of Ulster. |
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