Baroness Kate Hoey has argued politicians returning to Stormont under a revised trading pact would be like Nazi collaborators under the Vichy regime in wartime France.
The Northern Irish Brexit supporter and former Labour MP said: “There are people in Northern Ireland, leading politicians, who say, and it’s true, that Northern Ireland has now become a form of colony. The EU’s first kind of colony.
“If Stormont goes back with the present Windsor Framework, they in fact would be almost like what happened during the war with the Vichy government, where all those MLAs would be collaborators with a kind of colonial government.
