Lady Anderson was joined by other peers at Westminster in condemning ‘the appalling acts of racist thuggery’ seen on the streets of Ballymena.

Lady O’Loan herself survived an IRA bombing at Ulster Polytechnic, Jordanstown, in 1977.

Dublin’s stance is ‘hard to reconcile’, a Tory frontbencher tells Parliament.

Labour peer Lord Hain has claimed key inquests are being ‘deliberately delayed’ so they lapse when the UK government's new Legacy Act kicks in on May 1st