Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“If the new Prime Minister is truly to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, then, he must reverse the sovereignty-grab of the EU over Northern Ireland whereby Brussels’ laws govern much of our economy.
“This is the core constitutional issue which he must deal with. Restoration of NI to an ‘equal footing’ with GB in terms of trade between and within the United Kingdom (as required by Art 6 of the Acts of Union) and having us govern solely by U.K. laws is the touchstone.
“It is the sovereignty issue which also determines the future of Stormont. Unless and until the EU’s ill-gotten sovereignty is retrieved there can be no progress. No self-respecting democrat, unionist or nationalist, should be prepared to have NI treated like a colony, subject to foreign EU laws we don’t make and can’t change because we have been abandoned to their foreign single market, customs code and vat regime.
“It is how the Prime Minister deals with the Union-dismantling Protocol is how we will judge him.”