DUP leader said a time is coming to decide if ongoing talks are a basis for ending the impasse over the NI Protocol
The Stormont powersharing institutions are “essential” for building the case for Northern Ireland’s place within the Union, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has told the DUP conference.
The DUP withdrew first minister Paul Givan from the Stormont executive in February 2022 in protest against the internal UK trade barriers created by the post-Brexit protocol. The DUP conference is taking place against the backdrop of the continued negotiations between the DUP and the Government.He said: “Not for the first time, London, other Northern Ireland political parties, and no doubt even those in Dublin, will be straining to hear what is said from our proceedings.”He said the Windsor Framework represented progress but “did not sufficiently deal with some of the fundamental problems at the heart of our current difficulties” over Brexit.
He told the conference: “Unionists rightly and reasonably recognised that were they to pursue the creation of a hard customs border between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, even though that is where the international border remains, such a demand would have struck at the heart of the delicate balances that comprise the Belfast Agreement.
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