‘Brussels, not UK threatening Irish peace,’ Foreign Secretary Raab tells US
The UK government insists it is the European Union that poses a threat to the Good Friday Agreement as London itself pushes new legislation that would breach the Northern Ireland protocol.
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was quoted as saying on Wednesday that he told the US government during a recent visit to Washington it was the EU, not the UK, that was threatening the agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland.
Raab said on Thursday, however, that Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace agreement was not at risk from London’s move to withdraw from the bloc. “The Good Friday agreement is not in jeopardy… We’ve been crystal clear all along, we’re committed to it,” the foreign secretary told CNN. “We want to resolve the issues with our European partners, but there is not going to be any hard border [in Ireland], certainly not applied by the UK,” he added.