Michael Gove Belfast Agreement

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Michael Gove, the former environment minister, called the Good Friday agreement in 2000 a « denial of our national integrity. » The `Peace Prize`, an analysis of British policy in Northern Ireland, is a long-standing critique of the framework of the agreement, the UK`s policy on safeguarding the agreement and Ireland`s role in the Northern Ireland peace process, written for the Centre for Policy Studies. Sammy Wilson of the DUP said the « real test » of the agreement was how the measures « work on the ground. » Mr Gove told MPs that the Joint Committee`s agreement would protect the « full access » of Northern Ireland businesses to the rest of the UK market. He called on Gove to commit to « the government taking safeguards if necessary to ensure unfettered two-way access for trade between Britain and Northern Ireland. » « After Loughgall and Drumnakilly, the government became cautious and concerned about the accusations, » he said. In the pamphlet published by the right-wing think tank Centre for Policy Studies, Gove called the agreement a « Trojan horse. » « Everything we do will be essential to the protection and implementation of the agreement, including, of course, when we leave the European Union. » Mr Gove`s views are « a fanatical union protest against the deal, » said Brendan O`Leary, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and an adviser to the British Labour Party and the Irish government in the years leading up to the signing of the agreement in 1998. The cabinet minister presents the details of the EU-UK Joint Committee`s agreement on Northern Ireland. The Joint Committee`s deal is separate from the continuation of post-Brexit trade talks, which are currently stalled ahead of Prime Minister Boris Johnson`s last trip to Brussels on Wednesday night. Gove told MPs that the agreement reached with Brussels on Irish border agreements after Brexit will prevent certain export declarations, avoid the risk of tariffs on goods transported in Northern Ireland and will not see the creation of a « mini-message » from the EU. The Scottish-born Brexit supporter said the deal was a « rigged referendum, » a « lethal stain » and « a humiliation of our army, police and Parliament. » Shadow Labour Minister Rachel Reeves told Gove that the government`s threat to violate international law under domestic law was « a dangerous distraction. » Mr Gove also wrote that he believed that the SAS and other illegal killers in Ireland should have continued and that they could have defeated the IRA. . « It takes into account the Belfast Good Friday Agreement in all its dimensions and protects the interests of both the EU internal market and, more importantly, the territorial and constitutional integrity of the whole of the United Kingdom. » « This party opposed the protocol and warned of all the problems that the minister must deal with now, » he said.