TUV leader Jim Allister compares EU customs rules to colonial rule

TUV leader Jim Allister has compared the EU customs rules in effect in the North to colonial rule.

The North Antrim MP said also post-Brexit trade arrangements had damaged the union with Britain.

For years after the Brexit vote in 2016, the Irish Government lobbied against a hard trade border on the island of Ireland during EU-UK trade negotiations.

There has been concern within unionism about the so-called Irish Sea border implemented instead, and any friction it created, through additional paperwork and costs, on the movement of goods between Northern Ireland and Britain.

Speaking at the TUV conference in Cookstown, Co Tyrone, Mr Allister accused the DUP of “betraying this country and unionism” for its stance on Brexit trade rules.

Unionism was “not in a good place” and had been damaged due to the DUP’s “strategic blunders”, the MP added.

He said that the restoration of powersharing institutions in February last year, after being collapsed by the DUP in protest at…

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