Rishi Sunak declines chance to apologise over Operation Kenova report

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00:00 The recently published Canova report makes it absolutely clear that the IRA was riddled

00:05 with British agents from top to bottom. Those agents were involved in abduction, torture

00:11 and murder of British and Irish citizens. The successive British Governments knew all

00:17 about it and did nothing. The report also calls for an apology from the Government to

00:22 those victims. Will the Prime Minister take this opportunity now to make that apology?

00:29 Mr Speaker, as the Honourable Gentleman will know, this is an interim report as the Secretary

00:33 of State has laid out. We can't comment on the findings until we get the final report,

00:38 but we would never condone wrongdoing where there is evidence of this. But I will say

00:43 this also because it's not said enough. The overwhelming majority of the policed armed

00:47 forces and intelligence services served with great distinction. They defended democracy

00:53 in the face of some horrendous violence and without their service and their sacrifice

00:57 there would have been no peace process. They helped ensure that the future of Northern

01:01 Ireland will never be decided by violence but by the consent of its people.