The Progressive Unionist Party, which is politically aligned to the paramilitary Ulster Volunteer Force, has said there is “no basis” for unionists to continue to support the Good Friday Agreement peace accord.
Wales Governance Centre Annual Lecture - 2021 - Brigid Laffan:
This lecture analyses how Ireland responded to Brexit and the manner in which Brexit disturbed the delicate political and institutional balances that were central to the Good Friday Agreement.
Alexandra Hall Hall says UK ‘damagingly’ downplayed impact on NI peace process.
Government should lift ‘veil of secrecy’ as big decisions are made about protocol, says shadow NI secretary.
British minister 'claimed no-deal Brexit would only hit a few Irish farmers with turnips in their trucks'
28/10/2021
A FORMER British diplomat said one government minister dismissed the risk of a no-deal Brexit on Irish firms as only affecting "a few farmers with turnips in the back of their trucks".
A slim majority of voters in Northern Ireland view its post-Brexit trade arrangements as being on balance a "good thing" for the British-run region, a sharp increase in the last four months, a poll showed on Thursday.
Brexit Is Still a Hot Mess - Time
23/10/2021
One thing that hasn’t? Brexit, Britain’s exit from the European Union, is still a hot mess. / The latest chapter in the saga has the British government threatening to go “nuclear” and invoke Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol—not good for already tense U.K.-E.U. relations.
Northern Ireland, food prices, the ease of a deal - it turns out that many of the claims made by those advocating Brexit were not quite true...
Brussels was “preparing for the worst” over Brexit on Wednesday after the UK signalled the EU’s offer to scrap up to 80 per cent of checks on goods entering Northern Ireland was not enough to resolve the bitter dispute over the Irish border.
The EU's former chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, says changes the UK wants to make to the Northern Ireland protocol have caused him to lose trust because what is at stake is not goods or trade but peace.
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney warns about the ongoing border disputes, but he stresses that violence is unlikely.
Joe Biden has downplayed prospects of brokering a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK by instead warning Boris Johnson that peace in Northern Ireland must not be jeopardised over post-Brexit trade rules.
UK-US trade deal ‘very unlikely’ if Brexit talks damage Irish peace process, warns Pelosi
17/09/2021
The Speaker of the US House of Representatives said today that a breakdown in the talks over the Northern Ireland Protocol would be “problematic” for a post-Brexit UK-US trade deal.
The UK government has announced further delays to some Irish Sea border checks. / The checks are a requirement of the Northern Ireland Protocol, a deal reached by the UK and EU in 2019.
Two-thirds of people say a border poll should be held at some point in the wake of Brexit.
Why would anyone trust Brexit Britain again?
24/07/2021
Just seven months after singing its praises, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is attempting to rewrite the Brexit deal he signed with the European Union.
The annual march in which loyalists celebrate their ties to the United Kingdom comes as Brexit has created a new border in the Irish Sea — and the future of the U.K. is tenuous.
Labour leader accuses British prime minister of ‘reckless’ approach to peace process.
Frost’s latest remarks have been slammed as “a very strange way to make friends and build partnerships”.
Brexit’s collateral damage - Chris Patten
30/06/2021
Five years after the Brexit vote, the costs of that decision are becoming clearer.
Foreign minister says UK should admit what it has signed up to.
Brexit inflames North’s identity politics
27/06/2021
Economic advantages of NI’s new trading arrangement overlooked by rejectionist rhetoric.
Former MP says problem is not sausages but ‘porkies’ from Downing Street.