Anti-protocol demonstration staged in loyalist area of Belfast

Loyalists during a rally against the Northern Ireland Protocol in Newtownards Road, Belfast (Peter Morrison/PA)

A demonstration in east Belfast has called for an end to the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Crowds holding aloft Union flags and banners which read “stop the protocol” and “uphold Northern Ireland’s sovereignty: Trigger Article 16” gathered at Templemore Avenue amid a police presence on Friday evening.