Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:
“This morning’s judgement that Minister Poots and his Department were under a statutory duty to impose a Sea Border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the U.K. vindicates the decision of Unionists not to operate Stormont while the Protocol remains in place. After today there can be no doubt about the fact that one cannot sit in an Executive and oppose the Protocol. Operating Stormont means implementing the Protocol. With the Government arguing in the Supreme Court that the Protocol “disapplies” Article Six of the Acts of Union there can be no doubt that the price of Stormont is too high for any Unionist.
“The judgement also underscores the folly of Edwin Poots as Minister building the border posts which divide the U.K. and implementing it in the first place. No Unionist should ever have remained in office when doing so required such actions.”