Pelosi reaffirms US support for Ireland amid Brexit impasse

US house of representatives speaker warns US-UK trade relations will be threatened if Brexit deal imperils the Good Friday accordU.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sits next to Ireland's President Michael D. Higgins at the President's official residence in Dublin, Ireland April 17, 2019. Picture: REUTERS / CLODAGH KILCOYNE

Reaffirming a message of US solidarity with Ireland first delivered in a speech on Monday in London, Pelosi said it was vital to keep a “seamless border” between the Irish Republic and British-ruled Northern Ireland after the UK exits the EU. “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, we must ensure that nothing happens in the Brexit discussions that imperils the Good Friday accord, including, but not limited to, the seamless border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland,” Pelosi told a special joint sitting of Ireland’s parliament.

May’s government is now in talks with the opposition Labour Party to build support for her divorce deal that parliament has already rejected three times, forcing a delay of at least six months in the UK’s departure date.

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