{"id":259310,"date":"2025-07-12T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259310\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T15:54:09","slug":"bid-to-reintroduce-original-draft-of-hillsborough-law-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/259310\/","title":{"rendered":"Bid to reintroduce original draft of Hillsborough Law blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement issued on social media, Byrne called on Starmer &#8220;to keep his word and support the bill for the 97, for all victims of institutional failure, for truth and justice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made the comments after an attempted second reading of the bill was blocked by a government whip on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Byrne <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cp8m9dp6070o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tabled the original bill<\/a> on 2 July, and told Starmer he risked &#8220;yet another betrayal of Hillsborough families and survivors&#8221; if the government did not support the legislation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2016, after a 27-year campaign by victims&#8217; families, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-36138337\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inquest jury ruled fans were not to blame for the disaster<\/a> and that those who died had been unlawfully killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The original Hillsborough Law, first presented in 2017, included a legal responsibility for public servants to tell the truth after state-related disasters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Legal funding would also be provided for those affected by them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement issued on social media, Byrne called on Starmer &#8220;to keep his word and support the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-259310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114841076641811553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}