There would be no chance of a US-UK trade deal if there was any weakening of the Good Friday Agreement, US Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned last night.
The US House of Representatives speaker told a packed lecture theatre that the Good Friday Agreement was a model that could not be 'bargained away in another agreement'.
Speaking at the London School of Economics on Monday Ms Pelosi said passing a trade bill in Congress would be very hard and was 'no given'.
Earlier in her trip, Ms Pelosi reprimanded Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for his failure to tackle anti-Semitism.
There would be no chance of a US-UK trade deal if there was any weakening of the Good Friday Agreement, US Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned last night (pictured)
The US House of Representatives speaker told a packed lecture theatre that the Good Friday Agreement was a model that could not be 'bargained away in another agreement' amid stalemate
She added: 'First of all it is very hard to pass a trade bill in the Congress of the United States, so it's no given anyway.
'But if there were any weakening of the Good Friday accords there would be no chance whatsoever, a non-starter for a US-UK trade agreement.
'The Good Friday accords ended 700 years of conflict.
'This is not a treaty only, it's an ideal, it's a value, it's something that's a model to the world, something that we all take pride in.
'It was a model and other people have used it as a model and we don't want that model to be something that can be bargained away in another agreement.'
Ms Pelosi said she had met Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and senior Tories, and spoken to Prime Minister Theresa May on the phone.
She added: 'We have met the speaker. We met with the leader of the opposition Jeremy Corbyn and we met with those who left the Labour Party and we made it clear to all that if there's any harm to the Good Friday accords - no trade treaty.
'Today we met with the Government, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and deputy prime minister and those who are in opposition in the Conservative Party and to all of them we made it clear: don't even think about it.
'Every single person, including Theresa May, who I spoke to over the phone, said 'don't worry about that, we would not even go there'.
'That's a place we cannot go.'
Earlier in her trip, Ms Pelosi reprimanded Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (pictured yesterday in Halifax) for his failure to tackle anti-Semitism
After the first round of her meetings, including with three ex-Labour MPs who quit over the failure to tackle anti-Semitism, Ms Pelosi declared 'the importance of standing unequivocally against
