What they said: Politicians react to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Belfast Telegraph protocol article

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : What we will be telling him today is very clear, that what he and his government have done over the past year or two is to create instability in Northern Ireland, rather than lead people to a set of solutions post-Brexit that work.
53% : "And what the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary seem to me to be doing is to present a reasonable offer to the European Union on a system which suspends part of the protocol, yes, but still delivers compliance arrangements to protect the single market while assuaging unionist concerns about how the protocol has been operating up to now."
52% : There is no need for it and if there is to be a risked-based approach to goods entering the European Union, that's the direction of travel we should be going in."
50% : "The fact that Northern Ireland is 0.02% of the combined GDP of the United Kingdom and the European Union, there must be mechanisms to sort this out," he told the BBC.
48% : "This is a man who famously wrote two articles, one in support of Brexit, the other opposing it, before the referendum was called in 2016," he told the BBC.

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