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Stuart Anderson, the chamber's Director of Public Affairs and International Relations, said Northern Ireland was in a unique position and it was a "complex piece in terms of exports".

She says a lot of Irish in DC are drawn to the universities or work in international relations, healthcare and politics.

“It’s a day-by-day soap opera, and just like a soap opera, you get relief, then it heats up again,” said Jonathan D. Aronson, a professor of international communication and international relations at USC.

Given the public scrutiny and negative media attention Bass has weathered, it was unsurprising that her approval ratings had suffered, said Ange-Marie Hancock, a former USC political science and international relations department chair, who now leads Ohio State University’s Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.

The ambassadors' warnings came during an evidence session with the House of Lords' International Relations and Defence Committee which heard from four former British diplomats to the US.