Labour Veterans’ Tsar on Resignation Watch As He Slams Plans to Prosecute NI Veterans

Tensions between Labour’s veterans’ commissioner for Northern Ireland David Johnstone and Starmer are bubbling up over after he launched a scathing attack on the government’s plan to change the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023. The plans would scrap legal protections for veterans who were involved in British Army operations in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 2007.[…] Read the rest