Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:
“Chuck Schumer’s attempts to interfere with the politics of Northern Ireland will be treated with the contempt it deserves by Unionists.
“US politicians look back with pride on the founding of their nation in the late 18th century on the basis that the people should be governed by laws which they themselves make. Yet Mr Schumer demands that the people of Northern Ireland subject themselves to foreign laws they do not make and cannot change overseen by a foreign court. That is something Mr Schumer’s own voters would recoil at yet he seeks to lecture Unionists that they should accept it in our Province.
“This is just the first of what I expect to be many lectures from US politicians pushing for Unionists to roll over. Unionist politicians would do well to remember that they answer to the voters in Northern Ireland, not New York.”