Pleading to David Cameron amid widespread concern in the US about the Tories' new electoral pact with the Ulster Unionists,the paper reveals that in a late night phone call last week.
George Bush has made a direct plea to David Cameron to support the Northern Ireland peace process,asking him to use his influence to press his unionist partners to endorse the final stages of the 15-year search for a settlement.
It is an extraordinary intervention,perhaps no more than it shows that George W has alreday decided who is going to win the next election but perhaps more importantly as the same paper's editorial says
The Conservative leader, David Cameron, also needs to face up to what is at stake here. Mr Cameron has put a lot of commitment into restoring the electoral pact between his party and the UUP. He has encouraged the Marquess of Salisbury's reactionary romantic attempt to bring the Tories and the two large unionist parties back under one political roof. As a result he now finds himself simultaneously the leader of a party which began and backs the Northern Ireland peace process and the partner of a party which seems determined to prevent the final cornerstone of that process from being put into place today. This is not a cost-free contradiction in terms, as the US government and bipartisan congressional groups have now made clear. American economic investment in Northern Ireland as well as security are at stake.
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