John Finucane does not vote at Westminster, and it would be lazy to read anything into the zero. Sinn Féin members are abstentionist by policy: they contest seats and refuse to take them, so his empty voting record is a position, not an absence. What Finucane is is a solicitor and the party's Westminster leader, and a man whose own life is bound up in the conflict he legislates around. His father Pat, a defence lawyer, was shot dead by loyalists in the family home in 1989, in a killing the state has admitted collusion in. That history cuts both ways. Finucane has drawn criticism for describing a group of dead IRA men as innocent at one commemoration, and for addressing a South Armagh IRA memorial where he told the crowd the right to remember applies equally to everyone. To unionist victims it did not read as even handed. Verdict: present everywhere except the chamber he was elected to, and less even handed about which dead get commemorated than his own speeches claim.