evidence: The Protocol represents an existential threat to the future of Northern Ireland’s place within the Union. [...] In the recent Chancellor’s Spring statement, Northern Ireland had to be excluded from important cuts to VAT for households installing energy efficiency measures because of the operation of the NI Protocol. That is simply unacceptable. [...] The Government knows that the Protocol does not enjoy the support of Unionists – not a single elected unionist supports the Protocol - and Brussels can be in no doubt that the Protocol has cast its long shadow over Northern Ireland’s political arrangements.