Hi, I'm Stephen. I'm Anouche. I'm Alpha. On this week's New States

and podcast, we talk about legacy issues in Northern Ireland,

Keir Starmer's new operation, and you ask us,

are the Conservatives going to go off culture wars?

The biggest political story of this week in Westminster is, of course,

the Northern Ireland Office's announcement about how it is going to

square the circle of back bench and press from the right wing tabloids

to end the witch hunt in heavy inverted commas on British soldiers

for historic actions in service, particularly in Northern Ireland,

which is, well, yeah, Alpha, talk us a bit about the reaction.

This has caused both, you know, here in Westminster and in Northern Ireland.

The government, none of it is actually really a surprise because it's been

clear for quite a while that the government was planning some sort of

amnesty on, as you say, for British veterans alleged to have committed

crimes in Northern Ireland during the troubles. And as you say,

they've been under quite a lot of pressure to do that to, you know,

quote unquote, end the witch hunt against our boys and pressure from tabloids

like the sun, but also some quite vocal conservative MPs, including

Johnny Morris, but also people like Mark Francois and they made a promise

that they would do this quite some time ago. And so listeners of the podcast

will know, because I think we have talked about this before and we've definitely

covered it before that there was sort of no way that you could ever do that

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