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The latest Northern Ireland peace agreement will crumble, predicts the magazine, unless Unionists give Sinn Fein more time to cleanse itself of terrorist associations, both real and symbolic.
The conservative Daily Telegraph , which is strongly supportive of the Ulster Unionists, highlighted the agreement's weaknesses and, while not recommending a "no" vote, said in an editorial that if a majority of the Unionists were to vote negative, their decision should be respected.
Protestant unionists rejected a plan to implement last year's peace accord on the grounds that the plan requires sharing power with the political wing of the still-armed Irish Republican Army.
Rupert Murdoch's Sunday Times , on the other hand, described divisions among the Protestant unionists as the main threat to peace.
The new North-South council will appease Nationalists, and the British-Irish council will reassure Unionists.