Reform willing to rewrite Good Friday Agreement

REFORM UK could rewrite the Good Friday Agreement to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) without the support of Northern Ireland’s nationalist parties, its deputy leader, Richard Tice, has said.

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Nationalist politicians have warned that leaving the ECHR, which Reform sees as necessary to enact the “mass deportations” it has planned, would breach the Good Friday Agreement (GFA). But Mr Tice said yesterday that the 1998 agreement, which ended 30 years of conflict in Northern Ireland, did not prevent the UK leaving the ECHR and could be changed to remove references to the convention. He told reporters at an event in London: “Parliament has already made changes to the GFA. The idea that it sort of is preserved in aspic and can’t be touched and is untouchable, it’s just not the case.”