Nancy Pelosi Clashed With Tory Brexiteers Over Northern Ireland Border

Nancy Pelosi Clashed With Tory Brexiteers Over Northern Ireland Border










'Don’t condescend to me or to us.'


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Nancy Pelosi, the US Speaker of the House of Representatives, clashed with pro-Brexit Tory MPs during a meeting in London this week.
HuffPost UK understands Pelosi, the powerful Democrat, had a terse exchange with members of Jacob Rees-Mogg’s European Research Group over their view of the Northern Ireland border.
“Don’t condescend to me or to us,” she told leading ERG member Mark Francois.
The Tory MPs had told the American delegation the concerns about the border had been “concocted” by Remainers.
Pelosi used her visit to the UK to warn there was “no chance whatsoever” of Congress agreeing to a US-UK trade deal if Brexit harmed the Good Friday Agreement.
She repeated the warning during a speech in Dublin on Tuesday following a meeting with Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar.
During her time in London, Pelosi met British politicians including Chancellor Philip Hammond and the de-facto deputy prime minister David Lidington.
She also spoke with Theresa May, who is on holiday in Wales, on the phone.
The Democrat, who is second in line to the presidency behind Vice President Mike Pence, also had “candid discussions” with Jeremy Corbyn about anti-Semitism, Islamohpobia, Brexit, Northern Ireland and Nato.
Her meeting with the Labour leader came after she met with former Labour MPs who defected to form The Independent Group.




Nancy Pelosi Warns 'No Chance Whatsoever' Of US-UK Trade Deal If Brexit Harms Good Friday Agreement

During trip to London, Speaker of the House says peace in Northern Ireland must not be jeopardised to be “bargained away”.


“If there were to be any weakening of the Good Friday accords then there would be no chance whatsoever, a non starter, for a US-UK trade agreement,” she said.
John Bolton, the Donald Trump’s national security adviser, recently said the UK would be “at the top of the queue” for a post-Brexit trade deal.
But Pelosi, who will also travel to Ireland this week, warned it was not just up to the White House.
She said: “First of all let me say it’s very hard to pass a trade bill in the Congress of the United States, there is no given anyway.”
She added the Good Friday Agreement was more than a treaty as it was a “model to the world” and “something we all take pride in”.
“It was hard. But it was a model. And other people have used it as model. And we don’t want that model to be something that can be bargained away in some other agreement,” she said.




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In a sign of how Brexit has dominates all foreign policy discussion amid the deadlock in the Commons, Pelosi said it now overshadowed other transatlantic talks.
“Usually when we come here we are talking about national security, we are talking about intelligence, we are talking about the economy, we are talking about so many things. And this time it’s Brexit, Brexit, Brexit, Brexit,” she said.
Asked what aspects of the British political system she would take back to the US, Pelosi added: “It wouldn’t be the Monarchy, we fought a war over that.”
On her trip to London, Pelosi met senior British politicians including Chancellor Philip Hammond and the de-facto deputy prime minister David Lidington. She spoke with May on the phone.
Pelosi also held talks with pro-Brexit Tory MPs opposed to the prime minister’s policy and delivered the same message.
She earlier held “candid discussions” with Jeremy Corbyn about anti-Semitism, Islamohpobia, Brexit, Northern Ireland and Nato.
Her meeting with the Labour leader came after she met with former Labour MPs who defected to form The Independent Group. 





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