Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister:-
“The game plan of the Protocol is becoming increasingly clear.
“At its core is the decoupling of our trade links with GB and their replacement with ever closer all-Ireland dependence. EU officials have said as much. The long term political strategy is obvious.
“Yet, in their promotional lies the EU and U.K. proclaimed aversion to trade distortion. But, this is the inevitable outworking of a Protocol which retains us in a foreign single market for goods, subject to a foreign customs code and VAT regime and all of this implemented through foreign laws and overseen by a foreign court.
“Courtesy of the pernicious outworking of the Protocol the constitutional imperative is now for the reunification of the United Kingdom. Hence, the necessity for the Protocol to go in all its parts.”