“The Murphy Review is nothing short of a sham — designed not to address unionist concerns, but to entrench the arrangements Unionists oppose.
“That said, the TUV have submitted a detailed response exposing the review’s biased and unacceptable terms. The Protocol was imposed without a shred of cross-community consent. Yet now, we’re told that any deviation from it must have cross-community support. This is a gross double standard that betrays the very principle of parity.
“The terms of reference make it abundantly clear that the review is not a genuine examination of Northern Ireland’s place in the UK internal market. Instead, it is a managed process to uphold the Windsor Framework at all costs. The insistence on treating that flawed deal as an unalterable international obligation reveals the political stitch-up at work.
“Worse still, by requiring that any recommendation must have cross-community backing, the review hands nationalists a veto over any change. This is not parity of esteem — it is the institutionalisation of imbalance.
“TUV has made it clear: we do not accept the legitimacy of a process rigged in this way. The review is constrained, compromised, and incapable of producing an outcome that respects the constitutional position of Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom.“
You can read the full submission here.