article_snippet: A Commons select committee said the so-called ‘comfort letters’, which assured 187 Republican terror suspects they were no longer being hunted by the police, should never have been written.
article_snippet: A Commons select committee has said the ‘comfort letters’ scheme which was set up by Tony Blair’s (pictured) Labour government in 2000, should never have been written and may have been illegal .
highlights_snippet: Report has looked at controversial so-called 'comfort letters'
  The scheme was set up by Tony Blair’s Labour government in 2000 .
  
highlights_snippet: MPs have now decided Letters should never have been written .
  