Reaction to the death of Martin McGuinness

Lord Norman Tebbit, George Galloway, Yvette Cooper and Iain Duncan Smith today spoke to us about the death of former IRA commander turned peace maker Martin McGuinness.

There will be a great sadness in Ireland

Conservative Peer Lord Norman Tebbit, whose wife was left seriously injured after the 1984 IRA bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton, said: “The world is now a sweeter and cleaner place.”

There can be no forgiveness without a confession of sins

I think we should recognise those tributes from all sides as part of that really difficult peace process that we cannot turn the clock back on

So to some degree you look for a man’s redemption through his actions. And whether or not the judgement of him at the end of the day was a violent and brutal man but who eventually came to the process of peace

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