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Welcome to The Restless Politics with me, Rory Stewart.

And me, Anastagambo.

And we are, we're together, unusually, and we're in Belfast.

In Belfast, yeah, which is the 25th anniversary of Good Friday Green.

We're doing a live event for the 25th anniversary celebrations.

And you are surrounded by the great and the good. It's pretty extraordinary.

I came in on the, um, through the police security to get in to see me.

And I found my name sort of slotted in between Shree Blair and Senator Mitchell and all these kind of people.

So it clearly wasn't done alphabetically.

No, it was pretty odd. I don't know quite how the whole thing worked.

Anyway, here we are. And it's pretty amazing.

It's a moment where Belfast is, I suppose, a moment of economic optimism, but political uncertainty.

Economy going gangbusters really seems to be benefiting from having, I don't know,

it's become quite political thing to say, but anyway, in the sense,

the best of both worlds in relation to its trading with the European Union and with the United Kingdom.

The economy growing in some maths faster than anywhere else.

The United Kingdom others as fast as London.

I think it's going to look at extraordinary, like, 6% growth this year,

which is the sort of figures that you get in Southeast Asia, not in Britain, usually.

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