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Loyalists in Northern Ireland view Brexit’s Irish Sea trade border as a manifestation of attacks on their British identity, MPs have been told.
Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) leader Billy Hutchinson told a Westminster committee the only way to resolve issues around the Northern Ireland Protocol was through political means.
However, he warned that loyalist leaders had a “very difficult” job convincing some people within their community that protests should remain peaceful, claiming the reason the trade border was not placed on the Irish land border was due to the threat of republican violence.
The PUP has a long-established link with the loyalist paramilitary organisation the Ulster Volunteer Force.