What was Joe Biden trying to achieve by visiting Northern Ireland? – BBC Newsnight

In the twenty five years since the Good Friday Agreement, a roll call of US Presidents has visited Northern Ireland, and yesterday Joe Biden, no stranger to the island, was in Belfast for just a few hours before heading south for three days.

He tried to tempt the DUP, who have boycotted the Assembly and the Executive for more than a year, to return to power sharing, with the promise of the tripling of US investment in Northern Ireland to six billion dollars.

The DUP say they will not return to Stormont until Rishi Sunak takes steps to remove the remaining Brexit trade barriers between Northern Ireland and Great Britain, and yesterday in typically blunt fashion, Sammy Wilson the DUP whip, said "we will not be bought".

Newsnight’s Political Editor Nick Watt reports from Belfast.

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