No US-UK trade deal if Good Friday Agreement weakened: Nancy Pelosi

The Good Friday Agreement could not be "bargained away in another agreement", Nancy Pelosi told an audience at the London School of Economics.

London: The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives warned on Monday that a post-Brexit trade deal between the United States and the United Kingdom won't happen if there's any weakening of the Good Friday Agreement.

Nancy Pelosi said that in such an event there'd be "no chance whatsoever" of a trade accord.

The Good Friday Agreement could not be "bargained away in another agreement", she told an audience at the London School of Economics.

Pelosi revealed that in extensive talks with UK politicians, including Prime Minister Theresa May and opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, "every single person... said 'don't worry about that, we would not even go there'."

There have been concerns that the Good Friday Agreement, which sought to bring peace after years of troubles on the island of Ireland, could be in jeopardy as politicans seek to end the Brexit deadlock.The border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland has been a major sticking point, with the British government keen to withdraw the UK from the EU customs union whilst avoiding a return to border checkpoints.