DUP should do what is right and walk from Stormont

It is time Arlene Foster and DUP MLAs took some time to reflect and asked themselves, do I really want to be part of Stormont inside an all island economy?

Make no mistake, the goal of this poisonous protocol is to lay the foundation of an ever closer union between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

We must act fast because when the EU sinks her teeth firmly into our internal affairs there may be no turning back.

We cannot allow the protocol to bed in. So I ask the DUP to do what is right for their country and walk away from Stormont.

Westminster needs to be forced to take us seriously.

Darrin Foster, Portadown

• Letter: Arlene Foster should quit as DUP leader if she does not have stomach to lead unionism

• Letter: Both the DUP and the Ulster Unionists are aiding the demise of the Union

• Arlene Foster rejects Peter Robinson suggestion of collapsing Stormont

• Peter Robinson: Unionists might face a choice between keeping Stormont or scrapping the Irish Sea border

• Jim Allister: It may well be a choice between Stormont and the Irish Sea border, as Peter Robinson says

• Ben Lowry: Peter Robinson has long experience of the what is and isn’t feasible

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