Article 75BXH Badenoch apologises after Bloody Sunday footage used in post defending UK veterans

Badenoch apologises after Bloody Sunday footage used in post defending UK veterans

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Geraldine McKelvie
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Tory leader says she did not sign off on video attacking Labour's Troubles legacy proposals

Kemi Badenoch has apologised after footage from Bloody Sunday was used in social media posts criticising a bill on legacy issues in Northern Ireland.

The Conservative leader said on Saturday that she did not sign off on the use of a clip from the massacre, in which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed civil rights demonstrators in Derry, and that it was distributed by very young people".

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