NI Protocol undermines Good Friday Agreement – Jonathan Powell

Former Downing Street chief of staff Jonathan Powell. Photo: PA

The Northern Ireland Protocol undermines the guiding principles of the region’s historic peace deal, a former No 10 chief of staff has warned.

Jonathan Powell, who worked for Tony Blair and was involved in negotiations that forged the Good Friday Agreement, said he understood why loyalists and unionists were upset by the economic border in the Irish Sea.