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ANDY BURNHAM will make it his “personal priority” to expose abuses of police powers, including over the Shrewsbury pickets and the Battle of Orgreave.
Addressing Labour conference yesterday, the shadow home secretary pledged to fight for the future of police forces with the same vigour he has deployed in battling for the NHS.
He also said European free movement had benefited “private companies more than people and communities,” echoing concerns over the common market raised in a GMB union resolution passed on Monday.
IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
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
KIM JOHNSON MP places the campaign in the context of the history of the working-class battles of the 1980s, and explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow