A Sinn Féin MP will take part in a fringe debate at the Conservative Party conference today.
Conor Murphy, who won the Newry and Armagh seat at the last general election in the North, will take part in a debate in Blackpool which will also feature Democratic Unionist Party MP Jeffrey Donaldson, the Conservatives' Northern Ireland spokesman David Lidington, and Ulster Unionist Assembly member David Burnside.
The move comes after the IRA last week decommissioned its weapons. It also takes place almost 21 years after it detonated a bomb at the Conservative Party conference in Brighton's Grand Hotel, which killed five people and came close to killing prime minister Margaret Thatcher.
Mr Murphy welcomed the opportunity to put Sinn Féin's case to Conservative Party members for the first time. "Given the record of the British Tory party and their policy towards Ireland over many years, this event will provide for the first time an opportunity for Sinn Féin to place on the record the fact that there are those who share a different vision of the future," he said.
"In particular, a different vision of the future relationship between Ireland and Britain. The British Conservative Party claim to support the Good Friday Agreement. If this is the case then they need to join with us and other pro-Agreement voices to set as a priority in the time ahead the re-establishment of the political institutions and the implementation of the other outstanding Agreement matters."