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The shadow defence secretary James Cartlidge MP, the veterans' spokesman Paul Young, and Mark Francois MP criticise the Labour government's handling of the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles, at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester on Tuesday October 7 2025. Video by Ben Lowry, editor of the Belfast News Letter
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00:00Those Labour backbenchers, having been whipped by Starmer to vote for cuts to winter fuel
00:07and then cuts to disability benefits, are they really going to go through the lobbies
00:13of the House of Commons and vote for those people who come from their seats
00:21to be reopened to prosecution, often at the hands of Sinn Féin?
00:26What self-respecting Labour MP will vote for that and then go back to their constituency on a Friday
00:34and look those people and their descendants and their families in the eye?
00:40So we have to make sure that we call out what Labour are up to and call on every Labour backbencher
00:50who puts the defence of the realm and of those who fought to uphold the rule of law
00:58above putting their knees down to the whips.
01:05That's what this royal government does.
01:07Yeah!
01:09Yeah!
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