Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“This Explanatory Memorandum, signed yesterday by the Foreign Secretary, is a vivid illustration of just how far the Windsor Framework surrenders U.K. sovereignty over Northern Ireland to the EU.
“Here in paragraph 3 we have EU sovereignty proclaimed over the internal transfer of goods within the U.K. It is EU law, not U.K. law that is now governing these matters. Since it is EU law that provides for these internal transfers, it is the EU Court which has oversight. What a humiliating shame on HMG.
“As para 9 of the EM makes clear, all this is being done under Article 218(9) of
the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) – confirmation in itself that NI is to be treated as a part of the EU in the obnoxious constitutional condominium under which we now exist.
“It will also be noted in para 17 how the NI Assembly is irrelevant to this imposition of foreign law upon us.
“Those who think Stormont should return to operate in this orbit of foreign jurisdiction are wholly deluded.”