Paramilitary groups are likely to be thrive on the “political instability” surrounding the Northern Ireland Protocol and the impasse at Stormont after the Democratic Unionist Party refused to join the governing executive, MPs have been told.
The DUP has refused to take up positions in the Northern Ireland Executive in protest at the post-Brexit trade deal which effectively placed a border in the Irish Sea.
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss outlined plans to change the protocol earlier this week but Sinn Fein said her proposals would break international law.
Duncan Morrow, a politics professor and director of community engagement at Ulster University, told Parliament’s Northern Ireland Affairs Committee on May 18 the “ongoing political controversy” had created a “climate of legitimacy” for paramilitary groups….