Giving extra Irish MEP seats to the north would be 'breach of sovereignty', DUP says

Claire Simpson

Any plans to give the Republic's extra seats in the European Parliament to Northern Ireland after Brexit would be a "breach of sovereignty", a DUP MLA has said.

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