JOHNNY MERCER has withdrawn his support for Theresa May’s government over what he called the “injustice” of Northern Ireland veterans being prosecuted for Troubles-era offences.

The Tory MP for Plymouth Moor View made the move despite police statistics contradicting his claim that there was a “witch-hunt” against former British soldiers. 

In his letter to the Prime Minister on Wednesday night, Mr Mercer said the “macabre spectacle of elderly veterans being dragged back to Northern Ireland … is too much.”