Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“To hear latest UUP recruit, former Dublin senator Ian Marshall, proclaim ‘the Protocol is here to stay’ – echoing the propaganda of the EU, Dublin Government and the anti-Brexit collective – will be music to the ears of all who want to partition the U.K., promote economic unification on the island of Ireland and subject us to foreign laws and jurisdiction.
“Considering the UUP is party to an ongoing legal challenge to the iniquitous Protocol, if this is a direction of travel the UUP now intends to take, then it is reprehensible.
“It is a matter for the UUP to judge what a person of such beliefs brings to their party, but I suspect many grassroots UUP members and supporters will rightly be discomforted.
“No one should be in any doubt the Protocol is in the business of dismantling the Union – with Art 6 of the Act of Union already repealed. It is not something to be sustained, but removed in all its parts. Until now that has been the unified resolve of unionism. I trust that is not now changing.”