“NI’s place in the U.K. internal market cannot be restored while simultaneously having one foot in the EU single market, because the price is subjection to EU law and that subjugates Art 6 of the Acts of Union.
“Before EU membership NI was exclusively in the U.K. internal market; during EU membership the whole U.K. was in the EU’s single market; post Brexit GB is again exclusively in the U.K. internal market but NI has been left behind, still in the EU single market and subject to all its foreign laws. As Sammy Wilson MP rightly pointed out this week, full restoration to the UK internal market necessitates escape from the EU single market and its foreign laws and court.
“NI cannot serve two masters. This is not a matter of constitutional purity, but of constitutional reality.
“Restoration to the U.K. internal market of necessity requires our extraction from the EU single market on the same terms as GB. That is the only way to reverse the suspension of Art 6. Then, we could continue to trade with the EU but on the same terms as the rest of the nation – which is the proper constitutional order.”