Provisional Sinn Fein

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 21 July 1983.

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Photo of Mr Harold McCusker Mr Harold McCusker , Upper Bann 12:00, 21 July 1983

Does the Secretary of State still agree with the assessment that was made some months ago by the then Home Secretary and the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis that senior members of Provisional Sinn Fein, including Gerry Adams, were involved in the commission of serious terrorist offences? If he does not, why is he still refusing to talk to them? Is it not the case that Provisional Sinn Fein forms the essential propaganda element in the terrorist campaign that is being waged in Northern Ireland, and is it not time that the Government declared this organisation illegal?