TUV leader says MLAs are being asked to ‘surrender’ sovereignty to Brussels
TUV leader Jim Allister questioned why the usual requirement for cross-community support had been set aside for the vote. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PAMLA Matthew O’Toole, who said the arrangements should be extended as they provided necessary protections against negative consequences of Brexit .
Under the arrangements, which were designed to ensure no hardening of the Irish land Border post-Brexit, Northern Ireland continues to follow many EU trade and customs rules. “Stormont is built since 1998 on the imperative of cross-community support, then along comes the protocol, and at the behest of the EU, for the first time, a vital issue, a wholly controversial issue, is to be made on a majoritarian basis,” he told BBC Radio Ulster.
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