Tom Tugendhat: preference

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…The immunity provisions of the 2023 Legacy Act for Northern Ireland: good idea, bad idea? You’re not sure? Look, they’re necessary, I’m afraid. It’s incredibly painful because, for everybody, there’s a legacy of pain and loss. Everybody feels quite understandably that they want to have recourse to justice. But the reality is that we’ve now had 40 years of inquiries, many of them quite literally raking up very, very, very old information again and again and again and again. The people who are now being forced through these judicial processes are now usually men — or in fact, almost entirely men in their late 70s, 80s, whose recollection of events, if they have any recollections at all, are pretty sketchy. We’ve got to a point where the correct way of having inquiry into the past is to do historical inquiry based on written record, and I think that’s what this offers. What did you learn on active service in Afghanistan that most people would be surprised by?…

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