Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“The absence of any mention of legislation in the Queen’s Speech to counter and remove the Protocol means the response of Unionists in Stormont can only be unrelenting refusal to operate its structures so long as the Protocol persists.
“There is no point in HMG speaking of the integrity of the U.K. and economic bonds when the iniquitous Protocol continues to decree and operate on the basis that GB is a foreign country. This is what no unionist can bear.
“Accordingly, unionists must unreservedly refuse to operate Stormont in all its parts so long as the Protocol exists in all its parts. Stormont or Union-dismantling Protocol remains the choice.”