Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Conservative Party, has apologised for a social media video that included footage from Bloody Sunday while criticising Labour's Northern Ireland Troubles Bill.

The video appeared on Badenoch's X account and several Conservative Party platforms on Tuesday. It showed soldiers entering the Bogside area of Londonderry on 30 January 1972. The party removed it on Friday after becoming aware of the content.

A Conservative Party spokesman stated the material should not have been used and will not be used again.

Badenoch said she did not approve the video. She attributed it to young staff who failed to recognise the footage. She noted the video addressed a parliamentary vote on legislation targeting elderly veterans for actions from decades ago, often directed by political leaders no longer present.

Foyle MP Colum Eastwood stated Badenoch should apologise directly to Bloody Sunday survivors and victims' families.

On Bloody Sunday, soldiers from the Parachute Regiment shot 13 people during a civil rights demonstration in Londonderry's Bogside. The 2010 Saville Inquiry found none of the casualties posed a threat justifying the shootings. Then-Prime Minister David Cameron called the killings unjustified and unjustifiable.

Last year, a former paratrooper known as Soldier F was found not guilty of two murders and five attempted murders from that day.

Labour's Northern Ireland Troubles Bill seeks to replace the prior Conservative Legacy Act, which banned inquests and civil actions for Troubles-related incidents and included a now-ruled-unlawful immunity scheme. The government passed a carry-over motion on Tuesday to continue the bill's progress.