Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
'There is no equivalence between a terrorist and someone in the British military. That's pretty obvious to me and you.'
Former veterans minister Al Carns joins James Heale to discuss the government’s handling of Northern Ireland legacy cases – and why the issue helped drive him to resign.
Writing in The Spectator this week, he attacks the ‘two-track approach’ to legacy cases, which he says could cost taxpayers billions, and warns against allowing the history of the Troubles to be ‘rewritten through the courts’.
'There is no equivalence between a terrorist and someone in the British military. That's pretty obvious to me and you.'
Former veterans minister Al Carns joins James Heale to discuss the government’s handling of Northern Ireland legacy cases – and why the issue helped drive him to resign.
Writing in The Spectator this week, he attacks the ‘two-track approach’ to legacy cases, which he says could cost taxpayers billions, and warns against allowing the history of the Troubles to be ‘rewritten through the courts’.
