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Almost 20 years on from the Good Friday Agreement, The Westminster Hour's John Beesley has been to Belfast to explore the current state of politics in Northern Ireland. With power-sharing institutions having been suspended since January 2017 and Brexit creating disagreements about border arrangements, the largest two parties - Sinn Fein and the DUP - are in political deadlock. Jonathan Powell, who represented Tony Blair during talks in 1998, said: "I don't think there is any alternative to the Good Friday Agreement at the moment. As long as you have sectarianism in politics, you're going to have to have power-sharing, you can't go to majoritarianism or we'll be back to the bad old days."