Commenting on speculation about a DUP officer meeting today Jim Allister said:
“The test for Unionism of any deal on the restoration of devolution remains the mandate on which the DUP fought not one but two elections – their seven tests. If, as I suspect, not one word of the Protocol has changed and Sir Jeffrey pushes his party back into Stormont then a false bill of goods was sold to the Unionist people. The DUP have no mandate to go into a Sinn Fein lead executive in such circumstances.
“This is a defining moment for Unionism. If the Protocol is accepted by the DUP then they will have accepted that never again will Northern Ireland be fully part of the United Kingdom. Should that prove to be the case, it will be time for all Unionists who see the folly of such to stand together to resist betrayal.”