Blair promises MI5 will have no role in North policing

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has pledged today that the MI5 spy agency will have no role in ordinary policing matters in the North.

Wed, 10 Jan, 2007 - 11:46

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has pledged today that the MI5 spy agency will have no role in ordinary policing matters in the North.

The promise is aimed at assuaging widespread concerns among nationalists about plans to give the spy agency responsibility for intelligence-gathering in the North.

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