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Ian Paisley MP

Feb 1, 2023

Focus on substance rather than speculation | Ian Paisley MP

Kite-flying, wishful thinking by commentators and background briefing will not make the substantive changes needed to satisfy our seven...

Carla Lockhart MP

Jan 30, 2023

Three years on, NDNA commitments aren't being fulfilled | Carla Lockhart MP

January 2020 saw the New Decade, New Approach (NDNA) Agreement heralded as a new beginning, yet as January 2023 draws to a close, the...

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

Jan 27, 2023

"Don’t make the same mistake twice" | Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

We warned London, Washington, Dublin and Brussels in July 2021 that the Northern Ireland Protocol was incompatible with power-sharing and...

Medicines ‘cliff-edge’ looming due to Protocol | Lord Dodds

Lord Dodds of Duncairn

Jan 25, 2023

Medicines ‘cliff-edge’ looming due to Protocol | Lord Dodds

The impact of the Protocol on medicines was made clear today. The vast majority of our medicines are supplied through Great Britain and...

Jim Shannon MP

Jan 23, 2023

Ahern Recognises the need for leadership in Brussels | Jim Shannon MP

The former UK Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair and Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern were central to the Belfast and successor Agreements. It is...

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

Jan 20, 2023

Protocol must be replaced with arrangements Unionists can support | Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP

The Northern Ireland Protocol has never had the support of Unionists and never will enjoy Unionist support. It was imposed against the...

Sammy Wilson MP

Jan 18, 2023

Current talks with EU don't address the key issue | Sammy Wilson MP

In its haste to reach an agreement with the EU in order to be able to claim that Brexit had been done and then hold a general election...

Centre for the Union paper sends 'clear message' | Baroness Hoey

Baroness Hoey of Lylehill and Rathlin

Jan 10, 2023

Centre for the Union paper sends 'clear message' | Baroness Hoey

I welcome the Centre for the Union’s research paper, ‘Restoring Northern Ireland in the Union’, this paper importantly sets out the way...

Ian Paisley MP

Jan 6, 2023

Leo Varadkar's Brexit confession | Ian Paisley MP

So Dublin’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has finally admitted that mistakes were made with Brexit negotiations and that the protocol is...

Ian Paisley MP

Dec 10, 2022

Is the Union a better place already? | Ian Paisley MP

The Union is under attack that is for sure. In our recent past, nationalism and republicanism have raised their collective head and...

Ian Paisley MP

Dec 6, 2022

Von der Leyen's Diplomatic Nightmare in Ireland | Ian Paisley MP

Let us cast our collective minds back seventy-seven years when one of the most appalling days of misjudged diplomacy ever to happen on...

Centre for the Union Parliamentary Launch

Ethan Thoburn

Dec 1, 2022

Centre for the Union Parliamentary Launch

On 30th November 2022, Centre for the Union launched to a packed crowd in the Boothroyd Room in the House of Commons. Centre for the...

Ian Paisley MP

Nov 10, 2022

Our goal must be stability | Ian Paisley MP

I am introducing a Bill to Parliament on constitutional referenda concerning the constituent nations of the United Kingdom within the...

Protecting the Acts of Union | Baroness Hoey

Baroness Hoey of Lylehill and Rathlin

Nov 8, 2022

Protecting the Acts of Union | Baroness Hoey

The Northern Ireland Protocol Bill is key to delivering Brexit for the whole of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland....

Ian Paisley MP

Oct 12, 2022

Our Union is under attack | Ian Paisley MP

I am delighted to have been asked to serve as Parliamentary Chairman of The Centre for the Union in the House of Commons, it is a real...