Tory conference is bomb target for dissidents, warns MP

AN upcoming conference of the British Conservative Party is being targeted by dissident republicans for a bomb attack, a Tory MP has warned.

Patrick Mercer, a former army officer and ex-chairman of a House of Commons sub-committee on counter-terrorism, claimed he has received information from security sources in Northern Ireland that IRA splinter groups are considering mounting some form of terrorist attack on the party’s conference in Birmingham in October.

“One of the aspirations undoubtedly is to attack the Tory party conference,” said the MP.