'EU using Northern Ireland Protocol to punish UK', claims former first minister Dame Arlene Foster

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Dame Arlene Foster has said Brexit is "not quite done for Northern Ireland" and claims the EU is "punishing the UK by dragging its heels" over the Northern Ireland Protocol.
48% : "So immediately, you would see goods that are marked up in Sterling, if they were in the European Union, you would notice that one would have thought and of course, there were ways to deal with us, there were technology solutions, there were alternative arrangements, trusted traders, small business exemptions, but they were all pushed out of the way by the European Union," said Dame Arlene.
42% : "When you look at the risk, the whole idea behind the Northern Ireland Protocol is to secure the single market of the European Union, in other words, not allow goods into the single market that are shoddy or below standard," she said.
39% : In an interview with Andrew Pierce, she said "people tried to explain" the protocol was the "best of both worlds" as Northern Ireland remained in the UK but also the EU's single market after Brexit.

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