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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O’Carroll

UK exit from ECHR ‘would remove foundations of Good Friday agreement’

Irish tánaiste Simon Harris speaks before journalists holding out voice recorders
Irish tánaiste Simon Harris will speak in Oxford on Friday of the ECHR’s integral place within the Good Friday agreement, and announce measures to end ‘the scourge of paramilitarism’ in Northern Ireland Photograph: Grainne Ni Aodha/PA

Northern Ireland’s peace deal cannot be “negotiated away” by British political figures who want to see the UK quit the European Convention of Human Rights if elected, the Irish tánaiste has warned.

The ECHR is an integral part of the 1998 Belfast Good Friday agreement and withdrawal would remove those foundations of peace, according to Simon Harris, Ireland’s deputy prime minister.

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