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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Pippa Crerar and agencies

Only alter Good Friday deal with cross-community consent, says Tony Blair

Tony Blair
Tony Blair played a pivotal role in negotiating the 1998 Good Friday agreement. Photograph: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images

The Good Friday agreement should only be changed with cross-community consent in Northern Ireland, Tony Blair has said, amid calls to amend the peace deal to prevent political parties from collapsing power sharing in the province.

The former prime minister, who played a pivotal role in negotiating the historic agreement in 1998, acknowledged that there was a case for reforming the devolved structures at Stormont, given the regularity of collapses in governance in the region over the last 25 years.

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