I was at the site of what became known as the Battle of Orgreave in July, walking across the quiet fields of the Waverley estate with the then Home Secretary Yvette Cooper.<\/p>\n
It was the day she announced that the government would be conducting a national inquiry<\/a> into what happened there that day.<\/p>\n It was a bright summers day, not unlike the one in 1984 that will be subject to the inquiry, but six months on we still don’t know any more details about what the scope of the inquiry will be or when it will start.<\/p>\n The Home Office suggests it will start early this year, but campaigners will be keen to see some movement as soon as possible. It was a key announcement for Labour after it was in their election manifesto in 2024.<\/p>\n It will also be interesting to see what effect the new ‘Hillsborough Law’<\/a> will have on the inquiry. It will mean authorities will have to cooperate fully with the inquiry. They will have a duty to tell the truth<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I was at the site of what became known as the Battle of Orgreave in July, walking across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-346176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}