The Ulster Young Unionist Council is running our third annual Summer Debate Series. Those who attended one of our four debates last year will agree that a robust exchange of views and constructive engagement came from across the political spectrum.

Kicking off the series this year is a debate around the issue dealing with the past. This issue has been prominent in the news agenda of late and the UUP have just released their own policy paper, Dealing With The Past, which can be accessed below:

http://www.uup.org/images/dealing.pdf

The motion being debated is as follows:

"Truth Recovery is impossible in a polarised society in which truth has a political value in an ongoing struggle to define the past."

Speakers on the motion will be Professor Henry Patterson of the University of Ulster, Party Leader Mike Nesbitt and two Young Unionist members. The debate will take an adversarial form, although some latitude in terms of the speaker's interpretation of the motion will be allowed!

NigelMacauley