Views from Westminster

Ian Paisley MP

Aug 8, 2023

Strengthening the Union with UK-US Relations | Ian Paisley MP

Today in Westminster Hall, I attended the Transatlantic capital to capital exchange where 26 members of Congress, including the House...

Postal Packets Regulations change status of Northern Ireland | Baroness Hoey

Baroness Hoey of Lylehill and Rathlin

Jul 20, 2023

Postal Packets Regulations change status of Northern Ireland | Baroness Hoey

This week has seen a total disaster on the Second Delegated Legislation Committee on the Postal Packets (Miscellaneous Amendments)...

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

Jul 19, 2023

Unionists want a fair deal | Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

The ball is in the Government’s court. The DUP has a mandate to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly on a basis that unionists as well...

Ian Paisley MP

Jul 18, 2023

Postal Packets Regulations deepen Irish Sea border | Ian Paisley MP

The Government for some time now have been deceitful to the people of Northern Ireland, that the Windsor Framework and these regulations...

Mark Francois MP

Jul 18, 2023

"What a Shambles" | Mark Francois MP

It seems Ben Wallace was wrong, we are like Amazon after all. If the Whips don’t like independent-minded MPs on a Committee, they just...

Ian Paisley MP

Apr 19, 2023

Yes, the Northern Ireland Secretary has just paid tribute to Gerry Adams | Ian Paisley MP

Speaking at Queen’s University, Belfast yesterday, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Chris Heaton-Harris made this statement,...

Gavin Robinson MP

Apr 3, 2023

Vote splintering weakens Unionism | Gavin Robinson MP

At the last election some people argued that you can’t split the vote in a Proportional Representation election, they were left red faced...

My view on the Windsor Framework | Baroness Hoey

Baroness Hoey of Lylehill and Rathlin

Mar 30, 2023

My view on the Windsor Framework | Baroness Hoey

On Wednesday 29th March, four years on from when we were supposed to leave the European Union, we still find Northern Ireland trapped...

The ERG Response to the Windsor Framework

Christopher Howarth

Mar 21, 2023

The ERG Response to the Windsor Framework

The European Research Group's Legal Advisory Committee’s Review and Assessment of the "The Windsor Framework". The full...

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

Mar 20, 2023

DUP will vote against Windsor Framework | Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

Last week I indicated that while significant progress had been secured in the Windsor Framework across a number of areas it does not deal...

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

Mar 16, 2023

The Framework doesn't deal with some of the fundamental problems | Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

Unionism rejected the NI Protocol from day one. It took others time to realise and recognise our objections. Whilst the Windsor Framework...

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

Mar 15, 2023

A look at the Windsor Framework | Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

There is an understandable focus on the Democratic Unionist Party and our detailed assessment of the agreement reached between the UK...

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

Feb 27, 2023

DUP Response to the Windsor Framework | Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

Over eighteen months ago the Democratic Unionist Party outlined seven tests which at the time I indicated would be the basis upon which...

Gregory Campbell MP

Feb 24, 2023

Protocol bureaucracy costing £506m | Gregory Campbell MP

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office figures have confirmed that the Northern Ireland Protocol paperwork is costing taxpayers...

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

Feb 22, 2023

PM must deal with Protocol's constitutional and democratic damage | Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

The Northern Ireland Protocol has caused huge economic and constitutional damage to Northern Ireland. It has also fractured the...

Sir John Redwood MP

Feb 20, 2023

Protecting the peace and restoring the United Kingdom as a sovereign country | Sir John Redwood MP

The Unionist community in Northern Ireland has been ignored and angered by the actions and words of the European Union. The Northern...

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

Feb 17, 2023

Getting it right must be the goal | Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

This is a big moment. The next generation of Northern Ireland depends on the actions of the Prime Minister and the EU Commission...

Ian Paisley MP

Feb 17, 2023

Chairman's response to the Northern Ireland Office | Ian Paisley MP

Recently, Centre for the Union wrote to the Minister of State for Northern Ireland to urge him to take a stand against Northern Ireland...

Sammy Wilson MP

Feb 16, 2023

'The DUP will decide if any deal meets the 7 tests, not Number 10' | Sammy Wilson MP

There is much speculation about the deal that the PM is concluding with the EU, with the accompanying spin that it meets the DUPs seven...

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

Feb 8, 2023

A Response to the Supreme Court Judgement | Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

A solution to the Protocol was never going to be found in the courts, but the cases have served to highlight some of the reasons why...