Commenting after another day of hype over a Protocol deal, TUV leader Jim Allister has spelt out that the basic issue with the Protocol is constitutional.
“With Government and media pitching resolution of the Protocol as solely within the parameters of the extent of checks (strict or otherwise), it is timely to remind all that the sovereignty issues trumps all other Protocol problems.
“Unless and until the U.K. recovers full sovereignty over Northern Ireland there can be no settlement. This means an end to the application within this part of the U.K. of foreign EU law and an end to GB being treated as a foreign/third country.”