Brown’s decision on IRA victims’ compensation hard to justify - Davey

"Gordon Brown’s decision to leave this to the courts and not to make this an issue between Governments looks hard to justify," said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Foreign Secretary.

Responding to Downing Street’s comments on the issue of Libyan compensation for victims of the IRA, Edward Davey said:

“The Prime Minister is still failing to explain why he rejected the idea of the British Government negotiating directly for compensation for the IRA victims’ families.

“Everyone will wish the families’ legal teams good luck, but Gordon Brown’s decision to leave this to the courts and not to make this an issue between Governments looks hard to justify.

“The Government’s whole handling of UK-Libya relations over a period of years has now to be questioned in a wide-ranging Parliamentary inquiry.”