\u00a0]<\/span><\/p>\nHe added: \u201cOur primary mission is to stop the small boats, stop the influx of illegal immigrants coming across the English Channel, but we\u2019re very aware that when we do that the smugglers and the gangs will start looking for other avenues.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere clearly is an open border, an open back door to the United Kingdom, that is the North-South Border in Ireland.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo yes, this is something we have to take very seriously. It\u2019s going to be part of the reset that we need to have with the EU and with the Republic if we win, and it\u2019s absolutely unacceptable that illegal immigrants are allowed to come over the Irish Border.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kruger said that core to his party\u2019s \u201cproject of restoration is the re-establishment of the union as a single, indivisible state, whole and entirely one sovereign border\u201d.<\/p>\n
Power-sharing institutions in Northern Ireland were not operational for around two years as the DUP boycotted in protest against post-Brexit trading arrangements, known as the Northern Ireland Protocol and later the Windsor Framework.<\/p>\n
Kruger said he voted for the protocol because he believed \u201cit would be quickly dealt with\u201d, but went on to vote against the Windsor Framework, saying former prime minister Rishi Sunak \u201cbroke faith with Northern Ireland and with the whole of the UK\u201d with that arrangement.<\/p>\n
He added that \u201cthe principle of cross-community consent has been junked\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the final and the greatest betrayal of Brexit with the Belfast Agreement itself and of the rights of Ulster agreed all the way back in 1922, so that\u2019s where we are,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cWe want to work with you and your allies to ensure that if, as I fervently hope, we have a Reform government, we are able to complete the unfinished business of Brexit.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot to reopen all those wounds from five years ago or so, but simply and courteously to agree a new deal with the EU that respects our sovereignty, the sovereignty of the whole of the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n
TUV leader Jim Allister said Kruger would \u201cbe a far better occupant of Hillsborough Castle than the one we have at the moment\u201d and described him as \u201ca man whose ear it\u2019s well worth bending\u201d. \u2013 PA<\/p>\n
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