Professor Colin Harvey:

It is important to bear in mind that the rights and equality framework in Northern Ireland is complex and multilayered internationally and domestically. There will still be a range of international human rights obligations that the UK will be bound by in Northern Ireland. The UK is not leaving the Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights and Human Rights Act 1998 are still there.

On the specific issue about the rights of Irish citizens, the birthright provisions of the Good Friday Agreement are not well understood on these islands and are not effectively implemented in domestic law, policy and practice. That needs to change and can be fixed.