Gregory Campbell accuses Simon Coveney of being intransigent towards unionist concerns over Protocol

The DUP MP, who has said Brexit is not to blame for some of the problems experienced at ports in the north, claimed the Protocol is unworkable and has been 'foisted on Northern Ireland' due to Irish Government and EU intransigence.

Mr. Campbell said: “The Protocol has failed and needs to be replaced, yet Simon Coveney still seems blind to its flaws and to its blanket rejection within unionism. Such an unreasonable position is intransigence personified. It is exactly this attitude that led the EU and the UK Government to agree a protocol which no unionist party supported.

'Brexit is not the problem' at ports, says DUP MP Gregory Campbell who blames the Irish protocol"Whilst the ‘rigorous enforcement’ brigade is dwindling, Simon Coveney and his pals in Brussels seem to be the last people standing. Even the chief protocol backers in SF, SDLP and Alliance are sheepishly trying to forget their calls for rigorous enforcement but Coveney has missed the memo and is still, as the Irish Foreign Minister, telling unionists what he thinks is best of them."