Responding comments by the DUP leader to the Press Association the TUV’s Lagan Valley candidate Lorna Smyth said:
“Only the DUP could claim that having said that they had achieved “zero checks, zero paperwork” in February only to concede in June that that wasn’t true to now deny that there had been any u-turn on the issue.
“At the start of this election, Ian Paisley conceded that his party had engaged in “spin” following the publication of the Donaldson / Robinson deal with the Government. Significantly, that spin was against the Unionist people.
“Furthermore, just last week the DUP rubbished their own deal by calling for mutual enforcement rather than the scheme spelt out in the Safeguarding the Union document, which don’t forget, is one the DUP championed.
“The DUP position on the deal which formed the basis of their return to Stormont changes on a daily basis.
“Small wonder then that TUV is the only party, according to polling by Queen’s, to be trusted by Unionists to tell the truth about the Sea Border.”