Views from Stormont

It is time Unionists put the United Kingdom first | Doug Beattie MLA

The United Kingdom is a kingdom of four nations; England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Everyone who professes to support the...

TUV Response to the Windsor Framework | Jim Allister KC MLA

Among all the spin a critical consideration is how far, if at all, the existing Protocol has been superseded. A ‘framework’ will not have...

Assembly recall about stunt politics rather than power-sharing | Gordon Lyons MLA

Tuesday’s sitting will be the 5th time the NI Assembly has been recalled since last year’s election. On each of the four previous...

Supreme Court ruling must embolden the political campaign against the Protocol | Jim Allister KC MLA

The essence of our legal challenge was to the lawfulness of the Protocol. The fact the Supreme Court is satisfied it was lawfully made...

The Protocol: a strategy for Irish unity | Jim Allister KC MLA

Alert unionists in 1998, and increasingly since, identified the Belfast Agreement as not a settlement but as a process whose anticipated...

Unionism will be tested, but must stand firm | Jim Allister KC MLA

Let me call out the pretence that the current UK/EU talks can resolve the Protocol issues. They can’t, because the key issue is not even...

Resolve the Protocol or there is no basis for devolution | Emma Little-Pengelly MLA

No Executive in the Northern Ireland Assembly has been formed because the Northern Ireland Protocol does not and will not have the...

TUV Back Centre for the Union Report | Jim Allister KC MLA

For the TUV, and I believe Unionism in general, the Protocol has always been a sovereignty issue. Thus, any way forward must free us from...

Protocol Supreme Court case is a battle for the UK | Jim Allister KC MLA

Win or lose the Supreme Court challenge to the NI Protocol, it was a valuable exercise because it flushed out with forensic clarity the...

"Northern Ireland Office playing politics with Unionists" | Jim Allister KC MLA

Not for the first time the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) is callously playing politics to try and coerce unionists - something they never...

The Protocol is the real threat to the Belfast Agreement | Jonathan Buckley MLA

There is a very real threat to the Belfast (or Good Friday) Agreement and it is not what one may think it would be, or certainly not what...