Sir David Davis warns NI legacy plan risks lawfare fallout

Sir David Davis warns NI legacy plan risks lawfare fallout

The Conservative MP has delivered a lengthy adjournment debate warning that forthcoming Northern Ireland legacy legislation risks entrenching “vexatious lawfare” against veterans while ignoring what he described as decades of de facto amnesties for paramilitaries. Opening the debate, he argued that Parliament must approach the coming legislation “with the real facts of what happened in Northern Ireland” and insisted that the State has “a moral o…