Irish Sea Border Control Posts opening 1 October 2023

1 release from 1 party, 30 September 2023.

Each party’s website press releases, in order of publication

1. Irish Sea Border depicts a humiliating surrender of sovereignty – an internal border at the behest and under the control of a foreign power

   • TUV
   • 30 September 2023
   • Criticism
   • Criticises the uk government or a uk minister

   TUV leader Jim Allister says the Irish Sea Border, with its Border Control Posts opening on 1 October, is governed by EU law and the European Court of Justice, describing it as a humiliating surrender of sovereignty. He cites a £28m UK fine over diesel rules on pleasure craft as evidence.

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Parties with no matching press release found on their website

• Alliance: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• DUP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• Sinn Féin: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• UUP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• SDLP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• Green Party: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• PBP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (partly recovered), so a statement may have been missed.
• Aontú: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (partly recovered), so a statement may have been missed.

This does not show that a party said nothing: it may have commented elsewhere, in a release this system did not link to the issue, or in a release that has not been recovered.