Any change in the DUP hard line stance will have to wait until after the local elections on 18 May
to which the US is now a central player in the politics of Northern Ireland, and in its turn Northern Ireland is a crucial issue in the relationship between the US and UK.
This close engagement of the US administration in Irish affairs was not always the case. For a long period, British governments tried to keep official and unofficial American involvement to a minimum. In 1994, the British embassy in Washington fought long and hard, though ultimately unsuccessfully, to dissuade the Clinton administration from issuing a visa to the leader of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams, to visit America.
Prior to that period – and intermittently since when Boris Johnson and Liz Truss were UK prime minister – there was a British tendency to underestimate the interest of US politicians in developments in Northern Ireland. Sometimes this was dismissed too lightly as the result of many US politicians, particularly in the Democratic Party, being of Irish-American origin or of pandering to the Irish-American vote, in so far as this still exists.
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