FORMER British government minister Kate Hoey is to speak at a loyalist rally in Co Down.
The ex Labour MP, who now sits in the House of Lords, is one of several speakers lined up to address the event in Newtownards on Friday.
The rally is the latest in a series of protests organised by loyalists angry over the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Several large parades and rallies have been held in recent weeks, including one that attracted around 3,000 people in the Shankill Road area of west Belfast last week.
Days earlier, 800 people attended a similar event in Portadown, Co Armagh.
Other prominent speakers are expected to include TUV leader Jim Allister, former Brexit Party MEP Ben Habib and north Down loyalist Jamie Bryson.
Ms Hoey, who is originally from Co Antrim, Mr Allister and Mr Habib have recently spearheaded a legal challenge against the Irish Sea border.
In a statement, Ards and North Down Loyalist Collective said the four "high profile speakers will send a clear message that the violence rewarding, union dismantling protocol must go".
The collective added that "all speakers argue that alongside being morally repugnant mutilation of the union, that the protocol is unlawful".
"This is an entirely peaceful protest and we encourage all sections of our community, especially families, to come and enjoy the evening and to bring union flags, Ulster flags and protest banners," it said.
Organisers say that five protest feeder parades will march from different locations to the town centre for a rally.
None of the marches had been notified to the Parades Commission last night.
Details of the parade come after The Irish News revealed that loyalists may hold a mass protest in Dublin next month.
In 2006 a ‘Love Ulster’ rally through Dublin was abandoned after rioting broke out following clashes between republican protesters and gardaí, leading to 14 arrests and 41 injuries.
Earlier this week Mr Bryson said a protest in Dublin will send a message to the Irish government.
"Maybe that will make the Irish government realise that if they are intent on imposing instability within Northern Ireland, then instability will be brought to their country via peaceful protests," he said.
He added that "any discussions I've been privy to have quite rightly focused solely on peaceful protest" but that "there might well be others having different conversations I am not aware of".
Loyalist Communities Council member Jim Wilson, who was speaking in a personal capacity, later accused the Irish government of "political terrorism" over its approach to the Irish border issue during Brexit talks.
He claimed loyalists are entitled to hold a protest.
"If they need to vent their anger as long as it's peaceful, they are quite entitled to protest against the people who we believe created most of this situation," he said.
