Member

When I first started to argue that, the SDLP argued very strongly, but Sir George Quigley, chairman of the Ulster Bank and a very fine man, famously used to argue strongly the case for an island economy in the 1990s. There is one dramatic proof, however, of the argument. The Ulster Bank no longer exists in the Irish Republic, having once been very strong. The island economy is more of a rhetorical trope than a reality. The significance of the Windsor Framework is that we finally step off this and it supersedes, quite explicitly—page five is very clear on this—the language of both the protocol and the joint EU-UK accord of 2017.