The British Government was brokering a secret deal worth up to £10 billion with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime before Libya descended into chaos, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. For the past 18 months a dedicated Foreign Office unit has been supporting lawyers fighting to win compensation for UK victims of IRA bombs built with Libyan-supplied explosives.
| Another of Labour's bright ideas. |
The possible agreement would have included payouts for the 150 families of those killed and injured bringing the claim, as well as a huge "cultural and social" investment focusing on reconciliation projects, much of it in Northern Ireland.
Sources said the agreement would have seen Libya committing between £2 billion and £10 billion to the UK, as part of an effort to detoxify "Brand Libya".
| Going to need to rethink that part .... |