Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“Once more our subservience to EU law, courtesy of the unaltered Protocol and despite the empty promises of HMG and the DUP, has been underscored by the High Court striking down key aspects of the Rwanda Bill – as it did with the Legacy Bill – because of its conflict with superior EU law and rights as embedded by Art 2 of the Protocol.
“Yet another humiliation and savaging of UK sovereignty as NI is again found to be an EU colony where the writ of Brussels, not London, runs. Here again the DUP’s ‘Safeguarding the Union’ document is exposed as a sham as its promises in paragraph 46 that the Rwanda Bill is untouched by the Protocol are shredded by the High Court.
“Now we not only have a trade partitioning Irish Sea border, but now an immigration border too, leaving NI wide open as a magnet for asylum seekers.
“It’s time the DUP disavowed its sell out document and got on the side of demanding, not diminishing, British sovereignty.”