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Orgreave: What they wouldn't say in public
As early as 1991 ministers were privately admitting that there may have been problems with the policing during the most infamous incident of the miners’ strike, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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Top Home Office officials admitted policing of pickets at Orgreave during the miners’ strike had been marred by “mistakes, or worse” when they were pressed for an inquiry on policing the strike in 1991, according to internal papers obtained by the Morning Star
The Home Office admitted to “shortcomings” in Orgreave policing in private, but publicly ministers backed the police.
There are now new calls for an inquiry into policing the miners’ strike following the Hillsborough inquiry, which exposed misbehaviour by some of the same officers in the same decade.
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