My dear friend Randeep Hooda says I am more a unionist than an actor. I reminded him I was a star and not just an actor.

I hope the unionist parties, for example, who would be keen to protect and preserve the Union would see that it's much easier to do that if the U.K. stays within the Customs Union and the Single Market, because that would take away the need for any special arrangement, or bespoke solution, for Northern Ireland.

When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist.

There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity.

I'm a passionate trade unionist.

My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour supporter.

I am a proud trade unionist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.

In the run-up to the 2014 Scottish referendum, the so-called 'Cybernats' filled the Internet with hatred of their Unionist opponents. The Brexit referendum and its aftermath have followed the same course.

I am a unionist. But I'm a unionist up to the point of, if other people don't want to be in a union with me then, well, fine.

Unless people who voted for unionist parties are suddenly going to vote for a united Ireland, which I don't believe will happen, a border poll will be defeated.

The engagements I had with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles were about reaching out and showing respect to the unionist people. I also recognised that when someone like her makes acts of reconciliation as she did do at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, she is 100% behind the peace process.

I've had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team.

The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.