The same courageous leadership that helped secure the Good Friday Agreement is still needed in Northern Ireland 25 years on, Tony Blair has told LBC
The same "courageous" leadership that secured the Good Friday Agreement 25 years ago is still needed to help resolve Northern Ireland's problems today, Tony Blair has told LBC.Speaking to David Lammy on Sunday, former Prime Minister Mr Blair, who helped broker the Northern Ireland peace talks that brought an end to the Troubles in 1998, paid tribute to the nation's success since the agreement.
Meanwhile the Northern Ireland assembly in Stormont is not sitting because the Democratic Unionist Party has refused to sit amid concerns over how Brexit affects Belfast's relationship with London. The government's Windsor Protocol, currently passing through Parliament, aims to resolve this tension. Mr Blair told David that the Good Friday Agreement was "the most exhausting and difficult negotiation I’d ever been part of or had to lead".
"And so the distrust between the, the communities - that doesn't just go away overnight and that will take a generation, maybe several generations to heal.
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