NI Protocol

Steve Aiken was reacting to the Prime Minister's comments on the Windsor Framework

Windsor Framework is a 'nightmare' and Prime Minister is 'engaged in spin'

Sir Chris Bryant forefronts the alleged opportunities of the Windsor Framework

Esmond Birnie: SoS wrong about framework gains to NI economy

Frictions related to the Irish Sea border caused purchasers in NI to change suppliers

Esmond Birnie: Data does not suggest NI is advantaged by framework

Jeffrey Donaldson addressing DUP conference in October 2022, where he said EU law was the underlying problem with the Irish Sea border.

Bryson 'pulled Jeffrey Donaldson into hardline position' in conference speech

Our rightful place as full members of the Union must be restored

Letter: Unionist electorate in comatose state by spin

In 2024 Northern Ireland's sales of goods to Great Britain grew by just 0.8%

Esmond Birnie: Data shows strong hints of trade diversion away from GB

Some unionist parties have returned to the executive despite the continued existence, in substance, of Irish Sea border arrangements and the ongoing application of EU law

Letter: Unionist unity must be rooted in principle and credibility

Sir Keir Starmer said international law ‘is the benchmark for any government around the world’

Dermot Nesbitt: Framework breaches international law and must be challenged

Almost a decade has passed since the vote to leave the EU, in June 2016

Letter: You can’t oppose sea border and implement EU rule

A ‘grace period’ on the supply of veterinary medicines to Northern Ireland expires on 1 January.

Government 'tinkering' amid imminent risk to veterinary medicine supply - MP

Stevan Patterson with his 1946 Ferguson TE20 that he hopes to have restored for its 80th birthday next year but the Sea Border is making that very difficult.

Sea Border now obstructing Ferguson tractor restoration

Unionism benefitted at the polls following the unity agreement between the unionist parties in 2021

Jim Allister: Unionist unity must have a firm foundation

Sammy Wilson pictured with the Indian trade envoy, taken from a tweet Mr Wilson posted

Sammy Wilson dismisses claim he 'has become a Protocol advocate'

EU law takes sovereignty over Westminster re immigration in Northern Ireland

Letter: Loyalists should focus on NI Protocol over migration

Morning View

Editorial: No wonder unionists are wary about deals over Irish Sea border

A Westminster committee is probing issues around the Windsor Framework.

Logistics UK chief Nichola Mallon says Windsor Framework 'oversold'
The UK-EU deal which cemented the Irish Sea border arrangements was “to some extent oversold” – according to the Northern Ireland head of a logistics trade body.
David Thompson

Morning View

Editorial: Stormont brake is shown to be weak safeguard for NI against EU law

When the NI Protocol was first introduced, the government made a great deal of the fact that goods moving from Northern Ireland would have unfettered access to Great Britain

Jim Allister: UK government has blown its cover over border

Lord Paul Murphy is to carry out a review into how the Windsor Framework is functioning

Lord Murphy to conduct review into Windsor Framework

DUP Leader Jeffrey Donaldson, TUV Leader Jim Allister and Baroness Kate Hoey with Ben Habib and Loyalist spokesperson Jamie Bryson, during an anti-Northern Ireland Protocol rally in Bangor, County Down in April 2022. 2021 and 2022 saw almost unprecedented unionist unity - centred around the fundamental principles set out in the Ulster Day 2021 declaration

Letter: Power sharing is based on falsehoods

It would be a fallacy for business to continue as usual at Stormont, writes David McNarry

Letter: A ‘unionist commission’ could challenge government

The protocol continues to increase its penetration into NI’s economic and business life. It is a major breach of the spirit and basis of the 1998 settlement

Letter: The Northern Ireland Protocol is a breach of the Good Friday Agreement

A person smoking a cigarette outside a pub in Soho, London. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer wants to stop children from legally smoking tobacco when they become adults - with legislation expected in parliament next week. Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Tobacco industry seeks to use Protocol to undermine smoking ban

The DUP promoted the idea that the Safeguarding the Union document fixed the Windsor Framework and the protocol, writes Doug Beattie

Letter: DUP must take ownership now secrets are spilling out

Morning View

Editorial: Irish Sea border vote at Stormont puts unionists in predicament

DUP MLA Peter Martin has blamed the sea border for a collapse in foreign firms interested in investing in Northern Ireland.

Sea border blamed as foreign firms looking to open in NI down 70%

Morning View

Editorial: Muddling through sea border issues is not a solution
News Letter editorial on Tuesday October 29 2024:
Editorial

Rescue pets coming into NI, like this moggy from Battersea Cats and Dogs Home, will face a full EU border.

Irish Sea border: New rules for cats and dogs 'preposterous'

Former taoiseach Leo Varadkar recently stated that a united Ireland should be an 'objective' and not just an 'aspiration'

Letter: Leo Varadkar should mind his own business

Letters to editor

Letter: It would be a mistake to boycott vote to remove cross community consent

The largely hidden purpose of the 'European project' has always been to legally subordinate the UK in a pan-European federation, writes Dr D R Cooper

Letter: Lies about benefits of 'European project'

Economy Minister Conor Murphy has said the Windsor Framework "opens up great potential to attract investment and grow trade on both a north-south and east-west basis". Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire.

No evidence backing 'dual market access' investment claims

There are now undoubtedly substantial costs to the Northern Ireland and GB private sectors in terms of moving goods from GB to Northern Ireland, writes Esmond Birnie

Esmond Birnie: NI Protocol – quite a lot of economic pain for little gain

Former Chair of the NI Conservatives Alan Dunlop has quit the party with a scathing attack.

Former NI Tory chair quits calling party a 'political corpse'

Ben Habib of Reform UK addresses delegates during the The Reform UK Party's summer rally at Staffordshire Showground on June 23, 2024 in Stafford, England

Ben Habib: 'We need a common culture to keep the UK together'

Sellers on popular sites like Amazon and Ebay are already deciding they won't continue to sell to NI because of the burden of new EU rules due later this year, DUP MP Sammy Wilson says.

Sellers ‘pull out of NI’ over new EU regulations

A merged party delivering effective public services and growing the economy is best placed to grow much-needed support for the Union, writes Graham Nevin

Letter: Opportunity for broader unionism to deliver twin strategy

Letters to editor

Letter: Only Jim Allister has had the grasp of detail to expose the NI Protocol

DUP veteran Sammy Wilson has said the party backed a mutual enforcement to the Irish Sea border in the past but the government and EU rejected it. Photo: PA

Wilson and Allister in row over parties’ records

New DUP leader Gavin Robinson last week said Safeguarding the Union was ‘oversold’. Writing in today's News Letter, UUP candidate Tim Collins claims the command paper is a 'shambles' and has 'misled our people'

Tim Collins: DUP must take ownership of command paper shambles

Morning View

Editorial: Sinn Fein policy on the EU is subservient to its anti Britishness

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrives in Northern Ireland, with Secretary of State Chris Heaton Harris at Artemis

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Belfast today

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called for a General Election on July 4. The poll will be an ideal opportunity for those true unionists to put down a marker, writes Stevan Patterson

Letter: Make July 4 our Independence Day from EU rule

Alliance MLA Danny Donnelly attempted to blame Brexit for the continued application of EU law in Northern Ireland.

Alliance attempts to blame Brexit for EU law

Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron said the treaty relating to Gibraltar is different from the NI Protocol. He said: “This is a treaty which if you don’t like it, it has termination clauses – you can leave it”.

Cameron: Gibraltar deal different from Protocol because 'you can leave it'

Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris, who has announced he will not be standing at the next general election, said he would be continuing to campaign for the Conservatives as the 'only party that has and can deliver for the whole of the United Kingdom'

DUP urges Heaton-Harris to use remaining time to deliver for NI

Minister of State for the Northern Ireland Office Steve Baker says the deal further cements Northern Ireland’s place in the UK.

Government hails NI meat deal with EU

Letters to editor

Letter: Gibraltar is set to suffer the same as NI, when EU becomes the rulemaker

Anton Spizak, Associate Fellow at the Centre for European Reform, told a Lords committee that requirements for the EU to notify the UK about new laws “falls short of other precedents that the EU negotiated in the past – and I don’t think it’s sufficient”.

EU law arrangements 'not sufficient'

Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly (left) and First Minister Michelle O'Neill speaking to the media outside the Northern Ireland Office in Belfast after a meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris. Picture date: Thursday April 18, 2024.

Letter: Unionist parties have fallen for Sinn Fein’s Trojan Horse trap

Ulster Unionist Party leader Doug Beattie and members of his party pictured in the Great hall in Stormont

Beattie says ‘very personal’ spat between DUP and TUV is damaging unionism

TUV Leader Jim Allister has rejected what he called the "counsel of despair" from Lord Godson, who criticised the party's approach on the Irish Sea border. Photo: Stephen Hamilton

Allister rejects 'counsel of despair' over Protocol

DUP MLA Phillip Brett has rejected criticisms from the TUV about a future EU law and said the DUP have secured democratic accountability over new rules from Brussels.

Political row over single use plastics ban

Jim Allister in the Assembly today

Allister says he 'welcomes token resistance to EU colonialists'

Lord Hay addressing the House of Lords on Tuesday night

Lord Hay tells Parliament that he backs DUP boss Sir Jeffrey Donaldson

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