DUP MEP Jim Allister QC, will today vote against the new EU Commission.

Speaking from Strasbourg, Mr Allister said, "My fundamental objection to the Commission remains - it sets up in government over us unelected placemen, many of whom are dubious, to say the least, in their background and probity.

I will not endorse by my vote such an undemocratic arrangement, nor approve the inclusion of former neo Stalinists in key positions, nor aid the passage of a  Commission which is committed to foisting the European Constitution upon the nation states and whose expenditure and actions are not subject to effective fiscal or democratic control.

I neither believe in a European Superstate nor government by superquango".