Labour Appoints Anti-Tory, Anti-Brexit Bishop to Chair Thatcher-Bashing Battle of Orgreave Inquiry

Over the weekend the government announced it will capitulate to the demands of left-wing campaigners and launch a national statutory inquiry into the Battle of Orgreave. Labour is bound to do so by its manifesto…

Yvette Cooper said: “I think the miners’ strike still has deep scars across coalfield communities, and the decisions made at that time – the broadest decisions that were taken by the Thatcher government in the 1980s – the scars can still be felt across the coalfields.”[…] Read the rest