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The comments were made at a meeting between Albert Reynolds and British Prime Minister John Major at a meeting in Downing Street on 16 June 1993.

Mayhew, who would become the longest-serving Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, told an Irish official of his frustrations…

The comments were made at a meeting between Albert Reynolds and British prime minister John Major at a meeting in Downing Street on June 16th…

The comments were made at a meeting between Albert Reynolds and British Prime Minister John Major at a meeting in Downing Street on 16 June 1993.

The comments were made at a meeting between Albert Reynolds and British Prime Minister John Major at a meeting in Downing Street on 16 June 1993.

Sir John Chilcot, who died on 3 October 2021, was a highly regarded public servant whose name will forever be associated the forensic inquiry on the ...

He had a stellar career in Whitehall, and one of his greatest achievements was helping to keep the Northern Ireland peace process on track

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If any reader can name the current Secretary of State, or any others over the past 10 years, they deserve a prize. Failure to name any of them is excusable, as most have been undistinguished and indistinguishable. The notable exception is Julian Smith, who was appointed by Boris Johnson and, in a Herculean effort, restored the Assembly. His perverse reward from Johnson was to get the sack. Earlier Secretaries of State were, indeed, distinguished politicians. The wily and affable Willie Whitelaw...

Among other considerations, he said there was a “probability” of being “faced soon with more evidence” from the families or the Irish government and “if we are going to edge in their direction, it could make more sense to do it then rather than move now and having nothing left to offer later”. Holmes suggested, instead, that Mayhew meet the families but “essentially in sympathetic listening mode”. The then secretary of state for Northern Ireland Patric...