FOR THE 97

Deputy PM in appeal as Hillsborough law reaches next stage

- DAVE BURKE and ASHLEY COWBURN

MPS must ensure the full Hillsborough Bill becomes law as quickly as possible, David Lammy has said.

The Deputy Prime Minister said the historic legislation - designed to prevent future state cover-ups - “must remain in its current, strong form’ so that “injustice has no place to hide”.

The new law will be debated and voted on in the Commons for the first time today.

It follows a decades-long fight for justice by families of the 97 football fans who died in a fatal crush at the 1989 FA Cup semifinal.

Mr Lammy, who also serves as Justice Secretary, said: “Despite facing unthinkable loss, cowardly cover-ups, and denials of justice, the families and victims of Hillsborough, Grenfell, infected blood and other British tragedies did something extraordinary: They kept going.