evidence: The Assembly cannot simply vote and "the Protocol goes". By December 2024, the Assembly will vote on whether to continue with or withdraw consent for Articles 5–10 of the Protocol (but not the whole Protocol). [...] "There are basically three ways in which I can see the protocol being abolished. One is that the prime minister has a change of heart on the issue… Two, the legal challenge that has been launched succeeds, and I sincerely hope that it will. But if it doesn’t, then the third way in the law is to have 45 Unionists elected to Stormont. and if 45 members of the Assembly vote to revoke the protocol, then the protocol goes. And that’s where coming into the next Assembly election, I think that it’s important that unionists are working together and cooperating in order to achieve that number." [...] Can 45 MLAs vote to revoke the Protocol, and in doing so "it goes"?