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Member
Speaking in the House of Commons on 20 October 2026
Debate
Northern Ireland Troubles BillContribution
I will finish where I started, with the victims and survivors whom this is all about, and for whom all this is certainly not confined to history books. Of all the words written about the troubles, none get it more powerfully than the Ulster poet John Hewitt, who wrote in “Neither an Elegy Nor a Manifesto”:
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