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MPs vote 330 to 178 for new Troubles legacy bill
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It now goes to the House of Lords, where checking the details is expected to run into next year. The bill would replace the Conservatives' 2023 Legacy Act with a new commission to investigate killings, plus an information recovery body. Sinn Féin, a party in Northern Ireland, called the veterans' amendments a "veterans' charter", while the DUP says MPs lacked time to scrutinise them.
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