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Tory MP Johnny Mercer
JOHNNY MERCER has withdrawn his support for Theresa May’s government over what he called the “injustice” of Northern Ireland veterans being prosecuted for Troubles-era offences.
The Tory MP for Plymouth Moor View made the move despite police statistics contradicting his claim that there was a “witch-hunt” against former British soldiers.
In his letter to the Prime Minister on Wednesday night, Mr Mercer said the “macabre spectacle of elderly veterans being dragged back to Northern Ireland … is too much.”
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
Why not pay a visit to Feile an Phobail, a people’s festival of community arts with roots in the days of internment without trial, and where the spirit of solidarity remains undimmed, says LYNDA WALKER
