Ulster Unionist Party

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• Burrows challenges Chief Constable over Provisional IRA remarks

  • 6 November 2026
  • Criticism

  UUP Leader Jon Burrows MLA rejects Chief Constable Jon Boutcher’s reported claim that remaining Provisional IRA members are older people who pose no harm, calling the group’s continued existence anathema to democracy and urging a fresh security assessment and equal law enforcement.

  • Justice and policing
  • Northern Ireland
  • Issue: Chief Constable's comments on Provisional IRA existence

  Original release: Burrows challenges Chief Constable over Provisional IRA remarksArchived copy, Internet Archive capture of 8 November 2026

• Unionist Leaders and Inter-Trade UK Business Association urge the Secretary of State to stop EU Regulation 2026/2108 deepening the Irish Sea customs border

  • 6 November 2026
  • Call for action

  UUP leader Jon Burrows MLA, TUV leader Jim Allister KC MP and ITUKBA chair Peter Summerton call on the Secretary of State to apply the Stormont Brake and halt EU Regulation 2026/2108, saying it deepens the Irish Sea customs border and harms GB‑NI trade.

  • Constitutional affairs
  • Economy and employment
  • International affairs
  • Northern Ireland
  • UK-wide
  • International
  • Issue: Stormont brake request on EU goods regulations

  Original release: Unionist Leaders and Inter-Trade UK Business Association urge the Secretary of State to stop EU Regulation 2026/2108 deepening the Irish Sea customs borderArchived copy, Internet Archive capture of 8 November 2026

• Swann welcomes Joint UK-EU Agreement on parcel fees ahead of Parliamentary Partnership Assembly

  • 4 November 2026
  • Response to an event

  South Antrim MP Robin Swann welcomes the UK‑EU agreement that will keep “not at risk” parcels entering Northern Ireland free of EU handling fees, but says uncertainty remains over how the EU AI Act will apply to NI businesses under the Windsor Framework.

  • Constitutional affairs
  • International affairs
  • Economy and employment
  • Northern Ireland
  • International
  • Issue: EU handling fees on Northern Ireland parcels

  Original release: Swann welcomes Joint UK-EU Agreement on parcel fees ahead of Parliamentary Partnership Assembly

• Whitehall asleep as EU parcel tax and AI rules hit Northern Ireland

  • 4 November 2026
  • Criticism

  The party welcomes a proposed UK-EU SPS agreement but criticises EU customs rules and AI Act application in Northern Ireland.

  • Constitutional affairs
  • International affairs
  • Economy and employment
  • Public finance and taxation
  • Agriculture and rural affairs
  • Northern Ireland
  • UK-wide
  • International
  • Issue: EU handling fees on Northern Ireland parcels

  Original release: Whitehall asleep as EU parcel tax and AI rules hit Northern Ireland

• Armstrong: Farm fire costs rose four times faster here than across the UK

  • 4 November 2026
  • Call for action

  Ulster Unionist MLA Diana Armstrong calls for investment in rural fire services after farm fire costs rose 73% in Northern Ireland.

  • Agriculture and rural affairs
  • Economy and employment
  • Infrastructure and transport
  • Northern Ireland
  • Issue: NFU Mutual's Farm Fires Report 2025 statistics release

  Original release: Armstrong: Farm fire costs rose four times faster here than across the UK

• Burrows rejects call for dissident deal as PSNI marks 25 years

  • 4 November 2026
  • Response to an event

  The party Leader Jon Burrows MLA rejects a call for a deal with dissident republicans, paying tribute to the PSNI on its 25th anniversary.

  • Justice and policing
  • Northern Ireland
  • Issue: PSNI 25th anniversary

  Original release: Burrows rejects call for dissident deal as PSNI marks 25 years

• Burrows: ‘I’ll take no lectures from Sinn Féin on democracy, on equality or on the past’

  • 3 November 2026
  • Criticism

  Jon Burrows MLA responds to accusations of supremacist attitude from Sinn Féin's Philip McGuigan, criticising Sinn Féin's record in government and their stance on the past.

  • Community relations and legacy
  • Justice and policing
  • Northern Ireland
  • Issue: Philip McGuigan's Assembly speech accusing Jon Burrows MLA of supremacist attitude

  Original release: Burrows: ‘I’ll take no lectures from Sinn Féin on democracy, on equality or on the past’

• Aiken: Food checks deal welcome, but Irish Sea border is far from gone

  • 3 November 2026
  • Response to an event

  Ulster Unionist spokesperson Dr Steve Aiken welcomes draft UK-EU food checks agreement, criticising ongoing Irish Sea border separation.

  • Constitutional affairs
  • International affairs
  • Economy and employment
  • Agriculture and rural affairs
  • Northern Ireland
  • Cross-border / all-island
  • UK-wide
  • International
  • Issue: EU-UK food and plant products agreement

  Original release: Aiken: Food checks deal welcome, but Irish Sea border is far from gone

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