Former Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks exclusively to Eamonn Mallie on UTV

How you solve a problem like the protocol

File photo dated 10/04/98 of Prime Minister Tony Blair (right), US Senator George Mitchell (centre) and Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern after they signed the Good Friday peace agreement, which stated that the people of Northern Ireland will decide democratically their own future. Tony Blair was advised that he should use the "Government machine" to push for a yes vote in the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement - but not to the extent that it would risk calling the result of the historic vote into question. Issue date: Thursday December 29, 202

 Former Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks exclusively to Eamonn Mallie on UTV

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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks exclusively to Eamonn Mallie on UTV.

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