A police line during a confrontation with miners at the Orgreave coking plant in South Yorkshire in June 1984. The most violent incident of the UK miners’ strike of 1984-1985, the ‘Battle Of Orgreave’ involved a mass picket by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and police from 10 counties. Photo: Tom Stoddart/Getty Images
Margaret Thatcher was one of the main culprits for the Hillsborough disaster.
She wasn’t named as such in the report delivered last week by the final inquiry into the tragic events of April 1989. But the behaviour of the police which led to 97 deaths, the subsequent cover-up and the smearing of the dead by The Sun newspaper were rooted in the political climate she created.