Statement by East Londonderry TUV candidate and party chairman Jordan Armstrong:
“Whatever the reason for the Government’s decision to withdraw an amendment which would have seen double jobbing return to Northern Ireland this is welcome news.
“Hopefully our MPs will now focus on the serious job they have been given to do at Westminster rather than suggesting that they need more to do. Northern Ireland is already robbed of proper representation due to Sinn Fein’s disgraceful policy of abstention. We don’t need Unionist MP treating their work in the Mother of Parliaments as anything other than a fulltime job.
“Now that the issue has been put to bed I look forward to the election campaign being fought on serious policy issues, not least the Protocol and which Unionist party has proved itself to be most serious in its opposition to the dismantling of the United Kingdom.”