Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“If Boris Johnston is coming to Northern Ireland to urge restoration of the Stormont institutions while the Protocol remains – with mere promise of future change or just tough words – then, the response of unionists who recognise the dire constitutional consequences of the Protocol, must be a firm and irreversible ‘No’.
“Unionists, most notably the DUP, surely, have been fooled once too often by the PM to fall for any further blarney. No more ‘jam tomorrow’ politics!
“It would be utter folly to allow Stormont to function while GB is regarded, under the Protocol, as a foreign country – a partitioning of the U.K. and alignment with ROI which Stormont would have to operate through the shameful Poots Posts. The imperative is that the iniquitous Protocol must go.”
ENDS
