Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“As the Investment Conference launches in Belfast we hear laments about the lack of political stability, but from the very same people no recognition that the cause of the instability is the very thing many of them promote, the Union-dismantling Protocol.
“If you want to sort a problem, you deal with the cause.
“There can be no stability so long as NI’s economy trade and border is governed, colony-like, by foreign laws.
“The path to stability is to restore the equilibrium upended by the Protocol. That means fully restoring Art 6 of the Acts of Union, removing EU colonial rule, de-partitioning the U.K. by removal of the Irish Sea border and ending the diversion of trade. Unless and until such is done the Protocol will continue to be the great destabiliser in Northern Ireland.”