SDLP leader warns against 'fundamental change' to Good Friday Agreement

Abandoning mandatory coalition between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland would fundamentally change the Good Friday Agreement, the SDLP warned.

SDLP leader warns against 'fundamental change' to Good Friday Agreement

Abandoning mandatory coalition between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland would fundamentally change the Good Friday Agreement, the SDLP warned.

The 1998 accord which largely ended republican and loyalist violence represents peace and the first proper accommodation between Ireland and Britain for hundreds of years, the nationalist party's leader Colum Eastwood told MPs.

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