Peace in Ireland is sacrosanct: Good Friday disagreement and the DUP

Arlene Foster’s declaration that the Good Friday Agreement is “not sacrosanct” is shocking, but hardly surprising, as the party she leads, the DUP, opposed it in the first place.

In advance of attending the British Conservative Party annual conference in Birmingham yesterday, she said it was wrong to suggest the 1998 peace accord could not be altered to accommodate the final Brexit deal.