There are fears that the platform being given to an organisation which represents loyalist paramilitary groups risks “eroding democracy”, an MP has said.
Alliance MP Stephen Farry told the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee that the Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) was being treated as a “de facto” political party.
Another MP, the SDLP’s Claire Hanna, asked Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris if he believed media broadcasters were giving “too much space” to loyalist community representatives.
