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Sir Keir Starmer says government will block Adams compensation

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The government will look at “every conceivable way” to prevent former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams from receiving compensation, the prime minister has said.

Sir Keir Starmer was speaking in the House of Commons after the Conservatives said it was “shameful” that repealing the Legacy Act could put Mr Adams in line for a “cheque”.

The Legacy Act presently blocks him – and many others interned without trial in the 1970s – from claiming compensation for unlawful detention.

Mr Adams was detained in the early 1970s when the government in Northern Ireland introduced internment as violence spiralled in the early years of the Troubles.

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