Troubles ‘amnesty’ plan risks reconciliation in Northern Ireland, Haigh warns

Louise Haigh has met with the Ballymurphy families. Picture: PA

UK Government plans to ban future Troubles prosecutions risks undermining reconciliation in Northern Ireland, Labour has warned.

Opposition Northern Ireland secretary Louise Haigh urged the British Prime Minister to think again on the contentious proposals as she met with families who were bereaved in shootings involving the British Army in west Belfast in 1971.