One minister, Basil Brooke, who was later to become prime minister, declared: ‘Many in the audience employ Catholics, but I have not one about my place. Catholics are out to destroy Ulster with all their might and power. They want to nullify the Protestant vote and take all they can out of Ulster, and then see it go to hell.’ When the then prime minister, James Craig, was asked to disown this statement he responded not with condemnation but endorsement,
