Joe Biden visited Northern Ireland to ensure 'Brits didn't screw around'

Joe Biden said that he visited Ireland to make sure Brits didn’t “screw around” or break their commitments to the Good Friday agreement

said that he visited Ireland to make sure Brits didn’t “screw around” or break their commitments to the Good Friday agreement.

Mr Biden was speaking at a fund-raising speech in New York for the National Democratic Committee on Wednesday.Good Friday agreement“…I got to go back to Ireland for the Irish Accords, to make sure […] the Brits didn’t screw around and Northern Ireland didn’t walk away from their commitments,” he said in a speech.

Mr Biden and senior Democrats have repeatedly warned the British Government that Brexit could threaten a peace deal because it could restore a hard border., which was agreed upon in February, is intended to ease trade between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. Mr Biden told Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that a trade deal with the US would not go ahead unless it secured the Irish Sea border.after making a series of comments that risked alienating unionists.

Mr Biden’s comments in a pub in Dundalk continued to stir tensions, after he mixed up New Zealand’s rugby players All Blacks with The Black and Tans. The president immediately apologised for the blunder, before going on to criticise Mr Sunak for failing to cooperate with Dublin on Stormont.leader Sir Jeffery Donaldson has so far refused to criticise Mr Biden for the remarks.

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