Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson at a press conference after his announcement that he is to give up office, March 1976
Birmingham’s striking bin workers and supporters bring waste sites to a standstill
FORMER prime minister Harold Wilson praised Britain’s intelligence surveillance of a seafarers’ strike in the 1960s, according to Declassified UK.
The Labour leader also backed MI5’s blacklisting of a human rights lawyer from being appointed solicitor general over his marriage to an Italian anti-fascist activist, secret files obtained by the publication revealed yesterday.
MI5 spies were regularly summoned to 10 Downing Street for clandestine meetings with Mr Wilson to share material on striking seamen.
From nuclear bomb storage in the 1950s to surveillance flights over Gaza today, the Cyprus base has enabled seven decades of machinations so heinous that Starmer once blurted out ‘we can’t tell the world’ what goes on there, writes NUVPREET KALRA
