Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:
“Rishi Sunak’s decision to resurrect David Cameron speaks to a government which is out of ideas and increasingly running out of road. Lord Cameron, who as Prime Minister led the campaign to remain, is hardly the sort of appointment the Prime Minister would make if he was planning to take the fight to the EU in terms of restoring Northern Ireland’s place as a full and equal part of the UK.
“Having overlooked all of his MPs and effectively said none of them are up to doing the job of one of the great offices of state, I expect the fall out among his own backbenchers to be considerable which may well make the dying days of this fag end government more eventful.
“The reshuffle entrenches my belief that this is a government which has neither the will nor the desire to even begin undoing the constitutional vandalism it has wrought to the Union. There is zero incentive for any Unionist to return to Stormont to serve as underlings in a Sinn Fein led executive when the Tory Party clearly doesn’t intend to restore our place as full and equal citizens of the UK.”