DUP leader regrets stating NI Protocol led to delay in heart surgeries

Speaking at the time, the DUP leader said healthcare 'isn’t helped when access to medicines is impaired and inhibited' by the protocol

Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of the DUP, said he regrets stating that the post-Brexit protocol has delayed some heart surgeries in Northern Ireland (Liam McBurney/PA)

DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has said he regrets making a claim that the Northern Ireland Protocol had delayed some heart surgeries from going ahead.

Mr Donaldson said he accepted the information about surgeries in Northern Ireland was “not entirely accurate”.