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Host Emily Maitlis then asked Sammy Wilson, DUP MP for East Antrim and party chief whip in Westminster, to respond.
Attacking Mr Hoare’s dismissal of the DUP’s concerns over the Protocol, he attacked the Tory MP’s constituency and said: “I doubt very much that people in North Dorset would accept that they were equally a part of the United Kingdom as others if a different set of laws applied to North Dorset that applied to other parts of the United Kingdom.
“If new laws made for North Dorset weren’t made by politicians in North Dorset, (if) they were made by politicians in Brussels…”
Mr Hoare retorted: “Sammy all I would say to that is if the businesses and farmers of my constituency, which may of them wanted, were given the opportunity to have access to the internal market of the United Kingdom and the single market of the EU, they would bite your hand off, they would bite of my hand.
“They would bite the hand of anyone who is offering it. It is now time, I think, to focus on the positives, iron out the problems, focus on rebuilding the economy and let’s get, all of us working together, the prosperity agenda as envisioned in the Good Friday Agreement felt by all sections of the Northern Ireland community.”
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