sir geoffrey donaldson of the dup says it would do enormous harm, why does he say that? in law there is no provision for a joint authority whereby northern ireland may be jointly administered by london and dublin. joint authority can mean lots of different things but in that sense the constitutional position is very clear that northern ireland is part of the united kingdom. that said, there are provisions for cross border working and the involvement of dublin in many aspects of areas of collaboration and that is all good friday agreement and the irish they want this very much to continue but from the point of view of the dup, at the heart of this impasse and this crisis is the problem is of the dup and all the unionist parties in northern ireland have about the protocol, they feel it is undermined the constitutional position as an integral part of the kingdom and that it is caused economic harm and was something done without economic consent and it s this question of the protocol that
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