Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
No doubt, both parties seemed to understand that the NIP would not achieve its stated aim of protecting the Belfast agreement.
It was something the UK government signed up to. At the time of that article, the UK PM, Boris Johnson, had signed the document not one month before, and he was already undermining it. Clarke and Howard, Europhile and Eurosceptic, think that this goes beyond the micro-argument that the UK government and its supporters would like to reduce it to. It's a matter of the UK keeping its agreements, rather than abandoning them unilaterally.