Unionism must stand firm against a sell-out deal | Jamie Bryson
A ‘deal’ must achieve three things: (i) the restoration of Article VI of the Acts of Union; (ii) a complete end of the application of EU...
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Gordon Lyons MLA
Feb 12, 2023
Assembly recall about stunt politics rather than power-sharing | Gordon Lyons MLA
Tuesday’s sitting will be the 5th time the NI Assembly has been recalled since last year’s election. On each of the four previous...
Jim Allister KC MLA
Feb 8, 2023
Supreme Court ruling must embolden the political campaign against the Protocol | Jim Allister KC MLA
The essence of our legal challenge was to the lawfulness of the Protocol. The fact the Supreme Court is satisfied it was lawfully made...
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP
Feb 8, 2023
A Response to the Supreme Court Judgement | Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP
A solution to the Protocol was never going to be found in the courts, but the cases have served to highlight some of the reasons why...
Jamie Bryson
Feb 8, 2023
Centre for the Union - Supreme Court Judgement (Protocol) Briefing
Preliminary analysis of Supreme Court judgment in Allister et al challenge to the Protocol The Northern Ireland department of the Centre...
Jim Allister KC MLA
Feb 7, 2023
The Protocol: a strategy for Irish unity | Jim Allister KC MLA
Alert unionists in 1998, and increasingly since, identified the Belfast Agreement as not a settlement but as a process whose anticipated...
Jamie Bryson
Feb 7, 2023
Now is not the time to compromise | Jamie Bryson
There has been increasing speculation that a ‘deal’ between the UK and EU is on the horizon in relation to the Protocol. This arrangement...
Rachael Hamilton MSP
Feb 6, 2023
Sturgeon and the SNP's gender recognition mess | Rachael Hamilton MSP
Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP have got themselves into a real mess over rapists in women’s prisons and the Gender Recognition Reform (GRR)...
Ian Paisley MP
Feb 1, 2023
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...
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...
Tom Giffard MS
Jan 27, 2023
We cannot afford to ignore the nationalist presence in Wales | Tom Giffard MS
I’m very proud to be working with the Centre for the Union as their Welsh Conservative Senedd representative. The work of the Centre for...
Ross Thomson
Jan 26, 2023
In the interests of democracy Scotland’s Parliament needs reform | Ross Thomson
“There shall be a Scottish Parliament” is the opening article of the Scotland Act 1998 established Scottish devolution. All matters not...
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...
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