Focus on substance rather than speculation | Ian Paisley MP
Kite-flying, wishful thinking by commentators and background briefing will not make the substantive changes needed to satisfy our seven...
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Ethan Thoburn
Feb 1, 2023
An Open Letter to the Minister of State for Northern Ireland
Today, Centre for the Union wrote an open letter to the Minister of State for Northern Ireland, The Rt. Hon. Steve Baker MP, regarding...
Carla Lockhart MP
Jan 30, 2023
Three years on, NDNA commitments aren't being fulfilled | Carla Lockhart MP
January 2020 saw the New Decade, New Approach (NDNA) Agreement heralded as a new beginning, yet as January 2023 draws to a close, the...
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP
Jan 27, 2023
"Don’t make the same mistake twice" | Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP
We warned London, Washington, Dublin and Brussels in July 2021 that the Northern Ireland Protocol was incompatible with power-sharing and...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn
Jan 25, 2023
Medicines ‘cliff-edge’ looming due to Protocol | Lord Dodds
The impact of the Protocol on medicines was made clear today. The vast majority of our medicines are supplied through Great Britain and...
Jamie Bryson
Jan 24, 2023
Submission to the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee | Jamie Bryson
This week, on behalf of Centre for the Union, submitted to the House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee regarding the...
Jim Shannon MP
Jan 23, 2023
Ahern Recognises the need for leadership in Brussels | Jim Shannon MP
The former UK Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair and Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern were central to the Belfast and successor Agreements. It is...
Jim Allister KC MLA
Jan 23, 2023
Unionism will be tested, but must stand firm | Jim Allister KC MLA
Let me call out the pretence that the current UK/EU talks can resolve the Protocol issues. They can’t, because the key issue is not even...
Jamie Bryson
Jan 22, 2023
Policy priorities for Northern Ireland in 2023 | Jamie Bryson
It is an honour and privilege to have been appointed as Northern Ireland Policy Director for the Centre for the Union. I look forward to...
Dr Dan Boucher
Jan 21, 2023
Reflections of Starmer’s speech at Queen's University Belfast | Dr Dan Boucher
Sir Keir Starmer’s speech at Queen’s University Belfast just over a week ago, on Friday 13th January, was striking not because of what he...
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP
Jan 20, 2023
Protocol must be replaced with arrangements Unionists can support | Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP
The Northern Ireland Protocol has never had the support of Unionists and never will enjoy Unionist support. It was imposed against the...
Emma Little-Pengelly MLA
Jan 19, 2023
Resolve the Protocol or there is no basis for devolution | Emma Little-Pengelly MLA
No Executive in the Northern Ireland Assembly has been formed because the Northern Ireland Protocol does not and will not have the...
Sammy Wilson MP
Jan 18, 2023
Current talks with EU don't address the key issue | Sammy Wilson MP
In its haste to reach an agreement with the EU in order to be able to claim that Brexit had been done and then hold a general election...
David Campbell CBE
Jan 17, 2023
The Protocol breaches the Belfast Agreement | David Campbell
One of the big problems facing unionism is that despite the Ulster Unionist Party being the prime architect of the Belfast Agreement, its...
Jamie Bryson
Jan 13, 2023
Border posts regulations exposes the Government’s constitutional vandalism | Jamie Bryson
The Official Control (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2023 are constitutionally abominable and demonstrate that much like the Protocol...
Baroness Hoey of Lylehill and Rathlin
Jan 10, 2023
Centre for the Union paper sends 'clear message' | Baroness Hoey
I welcome the Centre for the Union’s research paper, ‘Restoring Northern Ireland in the Union’, this paper importantly sets out the way...
Jim Allister KC MLA
Jan 9, 2023
TUV Back Centre for the Union Report | Jim Allister KC MLA
For the TUV, and I believe Unionism in general, the Protocol has always been a sovereignty issue. Thus, any way forward must free us from...
Ethan Thoburn
Jan 9, 2023
Centre for the Union Report - Restoring Northern Ireland to the Union, 2023
By Jamie Bryson and Ethan Thoburn; foreword by James Bogle BL This paper is commissioned by the Constitutional Studies Group within the...
Ian Paisley MP
Jan 6, 2023
Leo Varadkar's Brexit confession | Ian Paisley MP
So Dublin’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has finally admitted that mistakes were made with Brexit negotiations and that the protocol is...
Ben Habib
Dec 19, 2022
The end of the Good Friday Agreement | Ben Habib
Over three years have passed since the Northern Ireland Protocol was conceived to rip Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom. It was...
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