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Airey Neave's Northern Ireland plan forty years ago

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Wednesday, 13 March, 2019
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On 12 March, the Lords discussed two important Northern Ireland Bills under highly unsatisfactory fast-track procedures, which Alistair Lexden criticised strongly in his speech during the debate. He ended by recalling a plan to improve the Province’s government devised by Airey Neave, Conservative Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, who was murdered on the eve of the 1979 general election.

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