The House speaker’s remarks in London and Dublin echo European Union pressure to keep the Irish border open.
By William Booth William Booth London bureau chief Email Bio Follow April 16 at 2:03 PM LONDON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leading a congressional delegation to Britain and Ireland this week. What’s being discussed? “Brexit, Brexit, Brexit,” she said.
The speaker said Tuesday she had warned Prime Minister Theresa May, Conservative pro-Brexit hard-liners and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn that if the churn of Britain’s messy break with the European Union in any way weakens the Northern Ireland peace pact known as the Belfast or Good Friday Agreement, the U.S. Congress will block any trade deals Britain might seek with the United States.
Ireland's prime minister, Leo Varadkar, welcomes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Dublin on Tuesday. [What’s up with Brexit? A guide to emergency summits, flextensions and more.] Pelosi’s remarks served to bolster demands by the E.U. that any agreement allowing for Britain’s orderly departure from the bloc must guarantee that the border between Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland, a member state of the E.U., remains as it is now — open and virtually invisible. This guarantee, known as “the backstop,” would hold no matter what happens in future negotiations over customs duties, trade tariffs and immigration controls.
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