Benn: Northern Ireland economy not being crippled by post-Brexit arrangements

TUV leader Jim Allister, leading an adjournment debate on trade diversion and Windsor Framework Article 16, told the Commons: “The whole purpose of the protocol was and is to build an all-Ireland economy, to dismantle the economic links from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, to enhance the links with the Irish Republic, and thereby to create stepping stones out of the United Kingdom into an all-Ireland for Northern Ireland.