Hillsborough victims failed by the state, says PM
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PA Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the British state failed the families and victims of Hillsborough to an almost inhuman level
The "unlawfully killed" Hillsborough disaster victims and their families were failed by the British state, the prime minister has told MPs. Sir Keir Starmer paid tribute to relatives who tirelessly campaigned for the truth about what caused the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans in a terrace crush at an FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield on 15 April 1989. Campaigners including Margaret Aspinall, whose 18-year-old son James died in the football disaster, watched from the p
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