Statement by TUV South Down representative Councillor Harold McKee:
“The Foreign Secretary’s acknowledgment of some of the difficulties business is facing with the Sea Border is welcome but until there is a clear acknowledgement that the core issue is constitutional the Government is dancing around the core of the issue.
“Unless or until Northern Ireland’s full place in the United Kingdom is restored there can be no weakening on this issue. The problems which businesses face flow from the fact that Article Six of the Acts of Union has been subjugated by the Protocol. The Poots’ Posts are a manifestation of the fact that under the Protocol Great Britain is treated as a foreign country. Unless or until that constitutional abomination is gone the problem remains. The Protocol is irreformable and must go.”