Harry Barnes is the Labour MP for Derbyshire North East and a member of the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee at Westminster and the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body. He is also Joint President of the cross-party peace group New Dialogue.

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Accord Issue 8: Northern Ireland

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