MPs' fury as U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy gets honorary knighthood for Northern Ireland role
Gordon Brown sparked fury today by awarding an honorary knighthood to U.S. senator Edward Kennedy, who has been accused in the past of being an IRA sympathiser.
Conservative MPs and Peers condemned as 'inappropriate' the decision to make a man closely linked to the Irish nationalist movement a 'Sir'.
Senior British politicians also expressed unease at honouring the Democrat who was embroiled in controversy when he was involved in an infamous car accident on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969 in which a young woman was killed.
The Queen agreed to knight the 77-year-old - brother of assassinated U.S. president John F. Kennedy - for 'services to the British-American relationship and to Northern Ireland'.
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Conservative MPs and Peers condemned as 'inappropriate' the decision to make a man closely linked to the Irish nationalist movement a 'Sir'.
Senior British politicians also expressed unease at honouring the Democrat who was embroiled in controversy when he was involved in an infamous car accident on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969 in which a young woman was killed.
The Queen agreed to knight the 77-year-old - brother of assassinated U.S. president John F. Kennedy - for 'services to the British-American relationship and to Northern Ireland'.