Unionist leaders come together at conference event to denounce NI Protocol

(left to right) DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, UUP leader Doug Beattie, David Trimble, David Burnside, Jim Allister and Kate Hoey at a fringe event at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

The British Government has been warned by the DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson that the Irish Sea border needs to be removed “for the future of the union”.

The leaders of Northern Ireland’s three main unionist parties shared a platform to strongly criticise the Northern Ireland Protocol at a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference on Monday.