Under the Bus again!
Furious response from DUP over Northern Ireland protocol
Lord Dodds says UK ‘falling into line’ with EU and retreating from commitment to trigger article 16
Lord Dodds said every day with the protocol in place ‘sees Northern Ireland and Great Britain move further apart’. .
The government’s retreat from its hardline position in negotiations with the EU over Brexit arrangements in
Northern Ireland has elicited a furious response from the most senior unionist in the House of Lords.
Lord Dodds, the former deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist party, has issued a veiled threat of “action” unless it restores the option of pulling the plug on the Northern Ireland protocol by using the article 16 process.
“Every day that passes with the protocol in place is another day which sees Northern Ireland and Great Britain move further apart. This is unsustainable.
“If the UK government can’t or won’t act, then unionism will and soon,” he said in a statement.
He was responding to reports that the UK has
dropped its demands for removal of the role of the European court of justice from the Northern Ireland protocol.
