America Letter: Congress members voice support for backstop and Belfast agreement. / This week the issue of Brexit made it across the Atlantic as members of US Congress voiced their concern about its impact on Northern Ireland.

He was booed in Scotland. In Wales, a chicken submitted to his embrace, but politicians held him at arm’s length. And in Northern Ireland, there were rumblings of Irish unity — which could only come at the expense of its ties to the rest of the United Kingdom.

New British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s big tour of the U.K. saw him booed by EU supporters in Wales and heckled by nationalists in Scotland. Northern Ireland’s fractious parties then told him that his Brexit plans were reopening old wounds.

Senior US politician says Brexit cannot be allowed to imperil Good Friday agreement.

A US-UK trade deal will not get through Congress if Brexit undermines the Good Friday Agreement, the Speaker of the US House of Representatives has said.

White House trade pledge empty without backing from pro-Irish House Speaker.

US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi has said there will be "no chance" of US-UK trade deal if Brexit compromises the Good Friday Agreement.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer today sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warning that he will strongly oppose any U.S.-U.K. Trade deal that undermines the Good Friday Agreement. In the letter, Leader Schumer also tells the Trump administration to stop over-promising an unconditional and unrealistic post-Brexit trade agreement with the United Kingdom.

The US Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has sent a letter to the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warning that he will strongly oppose any US-UK trade deal that undermines the Good Friday Agreement or facilitates a return to a hard border.

European Council President Donald Tusk said on Tuesday British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s demands to drop the Brexit backstop came with no “realistic alternatives” and amounted to seeking a return to controls along the sensitive Irish border.

The lord chief justice in Northern Ireland will tomorrow consider granting an immediate injunction to block the suspension of parliament.

Accusations come as PM is set to meet Irish taoiseach Leo Varadkar in Dublin.

Downing Street beats a hasty retreat after leak shows backsliding on Good Friday Agreement pledges. / There is near-unanimous political outrage in Ireland over a leaked British government plan to throw up a “buffer zone” with customs posts on the Irish border. Parties across the political spectrum branded it “out of the question”.

Prime minister’s ‘take it or leave it’ proposals described as unworkable and illegal.

DUP isolated in backing plan, which could ‘destroy economy and Good Friday agreement’

Democrats have warned future UK trade deal with US post-Brexit must uphold agreement.

Parliament Brexit chief says proposal is ‘mainly a repackaging of the bad ideas that have already been floated in the past’.

UK proposals "do not match even remotely" Northern Irish backstop plan, says steering group.

Ms Greer also warned of the depth of sentiment around the issue of Ireland in the US, saying: 'The United States is Irish'

Tusk ‘fully behind Ireland’ as MEPs reject UK Brexit proposals.

Donald Tusk responds to claims by No 10 source that EU is willing to ‘torpedo the Good Friday agreement’.

EU gives go-ahead to weekend meetings after PM appears to backtrack on customs stance.

The Tánaiste has raised concerns about the "citizenship and identity provisions" of the Good Friday Agreement after a Northern Irish woman lost a challenge by the British Home Office on its ruling that she is British by birth.

Nicos Anastasiades says Cyprus will stand up for peace in Ireland and the backstop.

Survey reveals devastating emotional impact as people in area fear return of hard border.