Diane Abbott MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, commenting ahead of the imminent announcement of the terms of the Orgreave Inquiry, said:

“The Orgreave victims and their supporters deserve justice. Their demands for a proper Inquiry are fully justified.

“We now know that South Yorkshire Police lied about what happened at Hillsborough when 96 football fans died. They were framed in the most disgraceful way and a mass cover-up aimed to hide police failings.

“Yet only five years earlier the same police force, with many of the same commanders, did the same at Orgreave during the miners’ dispute. They need the same justice. They need the same independent type of Inquiry to establish the truth. It would be shameful if this Government offered anything less.”