LABOUR backed safe-standing in the Premier League and Championship today, increasing the pressure on the government to follow suit.

Clubs in English football’s top two tiers have had to be all-seater by law ever since the 1989 Hillsborough disaster that left 96 Liverpool fans dead.

But large numbers of fans have continued to stand throughout games and calls for a scrapping of the all-seater requirement have grown in recent years, particularly after an independent review in 2012 confirmed that standing was not the cause of the Hillsborough tragedy.