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Is the Good Friday Agreement under threat? With Jonathan Powell

Daily Politics from the New Statesman

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The Importance of Maintaining Engagement With the Taliban

I was pretty chaotic with withdrawal of our forces in the end. And obviously we've got quite a strong immigration policy. So someone would say, given this period that has passed and how many people we may be excluding from safe and legal routes, how much damage do you think has been done? I think they collapse in Afghanistan, on the west, and the way it manages withdrawal is not exactly our final star. It's notable that no one much in Washington wants to talk about the issue. We need to maintain engagement with the Taliban to try and see if we can persuade them to move in the right sort of direction. You'll see in today the announcement about women's staff not being able

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