The new leader addressed Brexit issues over recent years, and the consequences of the Windsor Framework on Northern Ireland’s constitutional position. He suggested that European leaders should afford the same rights to Northern Ireland within the UK as they do to any other state on the continent. Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to NorthernIrelandWorld, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you.
Mr Nesbitt told delegates: “I suggest the biggest disruption to devolution and societal stability in the last 26 years was Brexit. I know some of you were with me in Templepatrick in 2016 when we agreed our policy would be to support Remain. “My analysis was that whatever Brexit might deliver for England, Scotland or Wales , it would be bad for Northern Ireland.
Bad for the border. Bad for our sense of identity. “I’m not going to dwell further, save to acknowledge we are still grappling with those issues, not least the impact on trade and the outworkings of the Windsor Framework, a development from the Ireland / Northern Ireland Protocol , which itself is a product of Brexit.
“The Protocol / Windsor Framework is an international agreement. Maros Sefcovic, Michel Barnier, Simon Coveney and many others have all made that point. But does the Framework respect a fundamental tenet of international law? Advertisement Advertisement “Does it demonstrate respect for the territorial integrity of the state.
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