Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“No one in London or Brussels should be deceived into thinking that the Protocol can be rendered acceptable to Unionists by addressing what are called “implementation issues”.
“It is not the fringes of the Protocol which offend but its rotten heart. It is the legal designation of GB as a “third country”, the foreign governance of 60% of the laws controlling our economy and the vassalage of being in a foreign single market for goods, customs code and vat regime which makes the sovereignty-busting Protocol irreformable.
“These are not “teething problems”, but indigestible constitutional change and denial of equal citizenship to the people of Northern Ireland. Thus, it has to go. Likewise, anyone who helps implement it is betraying the Union that matters most.”