evidence: In 2024, the assembly will vote on whether to keep elements of the Northern Ireland Protocol - the part of the Brexit deal that creates a trade border in the Irish Sea in order to prevent a hardening of the Irish land border. [...] Unionist parties strongly oppose the protocol as they say it has undermined Northern Ireland's place within the United Kingdom. Nationalist parties, along with the Alliance Party and Green Party, broadly support the protocol and have indicated they would vote to keep it.