Tory MP Johnny Mercer goes on strike until Theresa May protects veterans from ‘witch hunt’ prosecutions
The PM as well as Cabinet ministers have repeatedly promised to end the police probes, but have so far failed to deliver on the pledge to as many as 300 Ulster vets under new suspicion - many of them in their 60s and 70s now.
“These repeated investigations with no new evidence, the macabre spectacle of elderly veterans being dragged back to Northern Ireland to face those who seek to re-fight that conflict through other means, without any protection from a Government who sent them almost fifty years ago, is too much.”He added: ““I will not be voting for any of the Government’s legislative actions outside of
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