Voices of Scotland The enemy within, then and now morningstaronline.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from morningstaronline.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
To give a truthful account of the strike would require that Scargill address its sabotage not just by the NUM areas leadership and NACODS but by the entire trade union bureaucracy, led by the Trades Union Congress, which left miners to fight alone for an entire year. And he would have to address the role of the Labour Party, whose leader Neil Kinnock was a notorious opponent of the strike.
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They know what really happened that day in June 1985 at the height of the year-long miners’ strike. In 2016, then-Home Secretary Amber Rudd signalled her readiness for an inquiry