well, on wednesday kate hoey responded during a meeting of the northern ireland affairs committee.f the day or two, that i have said the belfast agreement could be refreshed, and we could look at ways, i don't know, saying to kill all babies at birth, it really is... do you think it is quite possible in northern ireland to be absolutely 100% in favour of peace and against violence and against militaries and against all the things that are spoiling people's lives, and yet want to have a look at how we make the institutions in northern ireland actually work better? one of the witnesses, the leader of the sdlp, told kate hoey that at its core, the good friday agreement represented peace. the conservative chair of the committee, andrew murrison at the end there. did score the remember the centrepiece. seemed more focused on the get out of you my comment had nothing to do with brexit. the and i would just, the warning right there. but the impact that has on communities is one that is very destabilising. and i for one, and the people of ireland as a whole, will not have a good friday agr

kate hoey said it's time for a "cold, rational look at it." wrote a telegraph piece arguing that british ministers should "start working with their irish counterparts on improving the system." it's gently phrased, and it's not a brexit point they are making per se, but this sentiment has only come from that side. there's an interesting linguistic point here, too — critics of the agreement tend to call it the belfast agreement, perhaps because good friday makes it sound too holy or reverential. but whatever you call it, for many, the agreement is, of course, synonymous with peace. today, the irish government called those who questioned it "reckless". the british said they stand by it "steadfastly". so what is going on? our political editor, nick watt, reports. yes, 71.12%. the british people have spoken, and the answer is we are out. they were seismic votes changing the intertwined history of these islands, and the legacy of those referendums, nearly two decades apart, are haunting the politics of today. remain supporters dream of keeping the u

in recent days from the brexiteers such as dan hannan, and owen paterson and kate hoey have questionedterms at at high levels said they are committed to that agreement. thank you for that update. the parents of a seriously ill little boy have lost a life support treatment fight with doctors. specialists at alder hey children's hospital in liverpool had asked a high courtjudge to allow them to stop providing life support treatment to 21—month—old alfie evans. our correspondent charlotte gallagher is at the high court. tell us a bit more about the case and what happened today. alfie evans is just 21 months old but he has spent much of his life at the children's hospital in liverpool. he has a neurological condition which is to generative and getting worse, it is not going to get better. doctors do not actually know what is wrong with him, it has no official diagnosis. they came to the high court today, alder hey hospital, because they want to withdraw life support from alfie. they say continuing to treat him would be inhumane and futile. well his pa rents inhumane and futile. well his pa