Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“The five priorities identified by the Prime Minister today are all worthy in themselves, but it is disappointing that he made no commitment to restoring U.K. sovereignty over the part of U.K. territory, Northern Ireland, surrendered to foreign control through a Protocol which subjects us to foreign laws, customs code and vat regime.
“A PM of the United Kingdom should be just that – the head of a government that controls all its territory. Instead, Northern Ireland has been the victim of a sovereignty grab by the EU which Rishi Sunak has so far done nothing to reverse.
“It is a patent contradiction to be termed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom when one part of the kingdom, GB, is decreed by the Protocol to be a ‘foreign or third country’ whose goods must be checked when moving to NI.
“Mr Sunak’s top priority should be restoring U.K. sovereignty over its own territory.”