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Left MP Ian Lavery accused Prime Minister David Cameron of showing the ugly face of the "nasty party" yesterday in a row over Margaret Thatcher's dirty war on the miners.
Mr Cameron arrogantly tossed aside Labour MPs' demands for an apology and full-scale inquiry into the Thatcher government's secret plotting during the 1984-5 miners strike.
The union-hating PM declared that if anyone needed to make an apology for their role in the miners' strike, it should be former miners' union leader Arthur Scargill.
The Home Secretary’s recent letter suggests the Labour government may finally deliver on its nine-year manifesto commitment, writes KATE FLANNERY, but we must move quickly: as recently as 2024 Northumbria police destroyed miners’ strike documents
