Joe Biden calls for powersharing return to bring economic boost to Northern Ireland

Mr Biden met with Stormont’s political leaders before making the speech at the university’s new campus in Belfast city centre. Picture: : Aaron Chown/PA Wire

US president Joe Biden expressed hopes of a return to powersharing in Northern Ireland as he insisted stable devolved government could deliver an economic windfall for the region.

In a keynote address at Ulster University in Belfast, Mr Biden praised the work of the UK and EU to strike the Windsor Framework on post-Brexit trading arrangements.