Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“When Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says he is seeking ‘privileged access’ for NI to the EU single market for goods, the price of such needs to be fully understood.
“It would be better called ‘submissive access’ or even ‘purchased access’, because it inevitably comes at the price of submitting to EU law, the EU court and its Irish Sea border.
“Annex 2 of the Protocol and its hundreds of EU laws still enforced in NI are testament to the price of access to the EU single market for goods. Subjecting ourselves to laws we don’t make and can’t change seems a strange privilege to me!
“There is no privilege, only prejudice, in an Irish Sea border, subjection to EU law and suspension of Art 6 of the Acts of Union.”