Government urged to meet election pledge to ‘uncover the truth’ of Orgreave attack
LABOUR was urged to fulfil its election pledge to “uncover the truth” about the infamous 1984 police attack on striking miners at Orgreave at the David Jones-Joe Green Memorial Lecture on Saturday.
Jones, 24 and Green, 55, were Yorkshire miners killed on picket lines during the 1984-5 miners’ strike against pit closures.
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