Clinton ‘thrilled’ by prospect of SF and Queen meeting

Former US president Bill Clinton has hailed the political significance of next week’s meeting between the Queen of England and Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness.

Mr Clinton said successive British governments had reconciled themselves with Sinn Féin but the decision by Queen Elizabeth to do so was a gesture on behalf of a nation.

And that should not be underestimated, he said, especially because she had lost her cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten to an IRA bomb attack in 1979.