Tory former chancellor Lord Lamont has pressed the Government over why only 30 people could go to the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral while more than a thousand were able to attend that of a former IRA leader.
The Conservative grandee referred to the controversy in Northern Ireland which helped fuel recent loyalist violence as he questioned the “equality of rights” of citizens in different parts of the UK.
As well as protests at the so-called border in the Irish Sea following Brexit, there was anger at a decision not to prosecute Sinn Fein members for alleged coronavirus regulation breaches for attending the funeral of Bobby Storey last June.