Let Theresa May, Who Has Not Sinned, Cast the First Stone

Village ✒ the 32-year cover-up of the Finucane assassination, its link to Kincora and the hypocrisy of the former prime minister.

Joseph de Burca.

This week marks the 32nd anniversary of the assassination of the Belfast solicitor Patrick Finucane. In 1989 he was shot dead by UDA killers controlled by MI5 in front of his young family at his home. The British government continues to resist a judicial inquiry into the murder despite castigation from its own Supreme Court and human rights groups across the globe.

No-one in the Tory party is putting Boris Johnson under any pressure to resolve the matter.

Johnson’s predecessor, Theresa May, however, has accused him of abandoning Britain’s “position of global moral leadership”. Johnson, she said, has failed to honour British values by threatening to break international law during Brexit trade negotiations. Another criticism was that he had backed away from Britain’s foreign aid targets. These two developments had not “raised our credibility in the eyes of the world”, she argued.

She then proceeded to lecture him to live up to “our values”.

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