Member

I come back to the politics of this and what happened when the Assembly was restored last year. My party was never in favour of it being taken down in the first place. There was a really hard sell to tell people, “The border has gone. We have fixed it”, from Hillsborough Castle by the Secretary of State standing beside Sir Jeffrey Donaldson. The hard sell was to say, “We’ve got this, we’ve done this, et cetera”. We now know that it has proven to be a complete falsehood. Many of us knew it at the time. We have to be realistic and honest with people about what is achievable and what is not.