A new report from Policy Exchange warns that the government is a taking “damaging new approach” to Northern Ireland legacy cases, with a potential return to prosecutions for British veterans and the abandonment of “any form of conditional amnesty“. Potentially setting back the peace process by decades…
Admiral Rt Hon Lord West of Spithead GCB DSC PC, Labour Peer in the House of Lords and a former Head of the Royal Navy said:
“The latest proposal in relation to Northern Ireland legacy cases looks set to strip away hard-won procedural protections from those who served during the Troubles. I agree with Policy Exchange that the Government must think again if we are not to perpetuate a damaging cycle, which is not fair to veterans and is not likely to promote reconciliation in the province.“
The paper adds that repealing the Legacy Act 2023 is “driven primarily by a desire to placate the Irish government and to bring a close to the inter-state case brought by the Republic of Ireland against the UK before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.” All roads lead back to Strasbourg…
Read the full report below:
Providing for the Future of Northern Ireland’s Past
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