Twenty-three years ago today a collection of very diverse politicians and community leaders signed what became known as the Good Friday Agreement. @BorisJohnson @michaelgove were journalists, whose cuttings books bulge with pieces critical of the process and those who led it 1/4

23 years on their carelessness and indifference, + lies told at various stages of the Brexit process, have helped resurrect fears about the future that the GFA helped consign to the past. Meanwhile I read in @thetimes that Johnson is ‘pining’ to get to Chequers for the W/end 2/4

‘It’s his spiritual home,’ gushes a source. The same paper has five paragraphs on page 28 on what is happening in N Ireland, headlined on bishops calling for the violence to end. There was some talk pre the death of the DofE of the PM actually going to NI (as a real PM would)3/4

As he puts his feet up at Chequers, doubtless Johnson will toast the Duke for providing such a huge story that takes the heat off him for the role he has played in igniting tensions, and the role he has avoided in seeking to resolve them 4/4