A banner for Hillsborough Law, April 20, 2024
A HILLSBOROUGH law must be “all or nothing,” bereaved families have demanded amid concerns that it could be watered down.
Labour confirmed last week that it will miss its own deadline to bring in the law, which it aimed to pass before the anniversary of the 1989 tragedy next Tuesday April 15.
Campaigners want the law to introduce a “duty of candour” to put a legal requirement on public authorities and officials to tell the truth and proactively co-operate with official investigations and inquiries.
The public inquiry is the result of more than a decade of determined campaigning. Now, those who fought for justice want the full story of government involvement and police conduct to be told, says KATE FLANNERY
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
