Hillary Clinton has dramatically intervened in the dispute over Brexit to warn that the hand of history will be “heavy and unforgiving” if a hard border is allowed to undermine peace in Northern Ireland. “We cannot allow Brexit to undermine the peace that people voted, fought and even died for,” Clinton writes in the Guardian. Clinton adapts a famous Blair quote from the time of the original Belfast agreement to warn: “If short-term interests take precedent over solving the long-term challenges that still exist in Northern Ireland, then it is clear that the hand of history will be both heavy and unforgiving.”She adds: “These are difficult times for Northern Ireland, and for our world. So we have to support and encourage the final outcome of Brexit where there is no hard border. “Doing that is one of the most important things we can achieve for the people of Northern Ireland 20 years on from the Good Friday agreement,” Mitchell said.

Source: The Guardian April 09, 2018 13:04 UTC