Statement by North Antrim MP and TUV Leader Jim Allister:-
“I am of course disappointed, though not surprised, that the Labour Government talked out my Bill today, rather than engage with the unfinished business of the Union-dismantling post Brexit arrangements to which my Bill supplied solutions.
“I am very grateful for the cross-unionist support, from both NI parties and some prominent Conservatives. Whatever of the outcome, I feel we won the argument. It is not a sustainable position to keep NI under EU colonial control and our trading links with GB fettered.
“The momentum built up in promoting the Bill must not be lost and, certainly, I do not intend to ease up on these issues. It was the injustice and constitutional peril which the Protocol has created which sent me to Parliament and it will remain my focus.”