Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-
“Given the potential ambiguity flowing from Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s remarks last week to the NI Committee in Parliament, it is important to state clearly that the issue with the Union-dismantling Protocol is not just the future threat to our trade into GB but the current and growing impediment of our trade from GB.
“When Sir Jeffrey said the essence of what he was looking for is that “we can continue to have access to the internal market of the United Kingdom and the changes to either UK law or EU law will not inhibit our ability to trade within our own country,” I trust he was not suggesting unionists can ever live with the inhibitions already imposed on GB/NI trade. It is these inhibitions which have put Art 6 of the Acts of Union into suspension. For that suspension to be lifted, then the present Protocol restrictions on GB to NI trade must go in their entirety.
“Ours is a two way trading Union and so it must be fully restored.”