Allister insists TUV/Reform UK offers opportunity to 'maximise´...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Instead, we had this sovereignty grab from Brussels, which insisted on treating Northern Ireland as continuing EU territory.
48% : "Mr Allister insisted the solution to the protocol issue was a "mutual recognition" system whereby the EU and UK agreed to check goods entering the other's jurisdiction.
47% : "TUV leader Jim Allister is standing in (PA)Asked about the prospect of the UK ultimately developing a closer relationship with the EU, potentially under a Labour government, Mr Allister acknowledged that could be one way of ensuring Northern Ireland was once again treated in the same way as the rest of the UK.
47% : "So, by coalescing all of the UK into the same position or relationship with the EU, then of course you can ameliorate some of the outrageous situations that Northern Ireland has been put into.
43% : "We joined the EU as one nation, the problem is we didn't leave it as one nation, we left Northern Ireland behind," he said.
39% : "We joined the EU as one nation, the problem is we didn't leave it as one nation, we left Northern Ireland behind Jim AllisterHe added: "So I think a strong showing for TUV in this election reopens the protocol issue and requires the DUP, looking after themselves, to man up on the protocol issue.
36% : "But the fundamental is the disparity in treatment of Northern Ireland, the fact that we were abandoned like a colony to the EU.

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