Member

Noble Lords need to know that it is now abundantly clear that, rather than repair the damage to the Acts of Union, the Safeguarding the Union legislation embeds the subjugation and suspension of and prejudice to the fundamental rights in Article VI of the Acts of Union. In addition, it has been established by Mr Bryson’s legal challenge that the UK internal market duties, which were meant to act as safeguards, are utterly useless and amount to nothing because we remain a foreign country for all practical purposes—part of EU territory, with a full customs border down the middle of our own country. Nothing has changed, and I am sure that many people within certain political parties in Northern Ireland will now be examining their conscience as to why they did what they did.