Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to a community pharmacy vaccination centre at Asda Watford in Hertfordshire
by Bethany Rielly
News Reporter
SIR KEIR STARMER is being urged to give evidence at the spycops inquiry to shed light on his potential role in miscarriages of justice cases against activists when he was head of public prosecutions.
A group of 18 environmental activists are demanding the Labour leader answer questions over whether he helped to conceal information about the role of undercover police in their and other campaigners’ wrongful convictions 10 years ago.
The activists said in a statement, published by the Guardian today, that they were seeking to “get to the truth about non-disclosure, prosecutions and miscarriages of justice that involved undercover police officers” and want Sir Keir and other figures to give evidence to achieve that.
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