'I still think the peace will hold. And I think that people on the island of Ireland are determined not to go back to the past.'
Tony Blair has said setting aside "ideology" over Brexit's Northern Ireland Protocol will help resolve the dispute.
Mr Blair also reflected on the forthcoming 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, saying the peace deal has "worked in a way, mostly, but it's not working as it should at the moment". However, he added: "I still think the peace will hold. And I think that people on the island of Ireland are determined not to go back to the past."
Reflecting on his involvement in events leading up to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, the former Labour leader said the deal was "on a knife edge right up until the very last moment".
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