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By Voice of the Mirror We need an inquiryFolk are right to smell a rat when the Tories resist a public inquiry into the brutal Battle of Orgreave during the 1984-85 miners’ strike for jobs. Margaret Thatcher’s truncheon-wielding army of police cracked heads and mass arrested pickets in infamous scenes outside the coking works in South Yorkshire. Fresh evidence of how terribly some behaved casts doubt on convictions. Theresa May, when Prime Minister, rejected an inquiry and Rishi Sunak will be of the same mind, terrified where a probe might lead. The indefatigable Orgreave Truth and Justice Cam…

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