Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“With some possible equivocation creeping into the Government’s position on the Protocol, I have 3 straightforward questions for Lord Frost:
- Is he contemplating Northern Ireland remaining within the EU’s Single Market for goods and thus subject to EU laws, meaning much of the laws governing our economy would continue to be made not in Belfast or London, but in a foreign jurisdiction?
- Is he contemplating Northern Ireland remaining under the EU’s Customs Code with GB in consequence regarded as a ‘third country’?
- Is he contemplating Northern Ireland remaining under the EU’s VAT regime?
“These are the seminal and constitutional questions which cannot be dodged or fudged. HMG needs to be resolute on these issues, otherwise the constitutional destruction of the Protocol will continue.”