Aoife Moore: The world now knows that Britain under the Conservatives does what it wants

What will happen in the days and months after this bill is published is that economic performance will begin to suffer. 

British foreign secretary Liz Truss has tabled legislation which, according to the EU and Simon Coveney, breaks international law, puts the peace process at risk, alienates 51 of 90 elected members of Stormont and placates a minority of people in the North and then claims it's for the good of the people of Northern Ireland. File photo: PA

After the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, US President Bill Clinton warned: "In the days to come there may be those who will try to undermine this great achievement." 

He was warning of Loyalist paramilitaries at the time, and could not have known that one of the main protectors of the precious peace process would one day be the one who threatened to bring it crashing down.