“none of our elected representatives will be supporting..”

DUP leader Peter Robinson is trying to safely navigate his party between “a different world and different planet”, and the “adult world”. From his statement on the Libyan compensation campaign.

It is clear from the reception for the Lockerbie bomber that Libya still has a long way to go. Consequently, none of our elected representatives will be supporting any future deployments of police personnel to Libya until they have reached a settlement on the payment of compensation to PIRA victims and relations have been normalised.


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