Good Friday Agreement ‘cannot change’, Biden warns at St Patrick’s Day event

US President Joe Biden speaks at the Ireland Funds gala (Oliver Contreras/PA)

Joe Biden has rounded off the St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Washington with an emphatic warning that the Good Friday Agreement “cannot change”.

Appearing at the traditional shamrock ceremony in the White House, Mr Biden made an impassioned plea that the Good Friday Agreement be protected amid the ongoing back-and-forth between Britain and the EU over post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland.