In the following days, strong signals that May had indeed decided to hold an Orgreave inquiry grew in momentum. On 31 October, May’s home secretary, Amber Rudd, declared that there would be no Orgreave inquiry. In July, Labour’s Andy Burnham challenged May’s newly appointed home secretary, Amber Rudd, about whether the commitment to an Orgreave inquiry was wavering. When the Conservative rightwing backlash to an Orgreave inquiry came, Theresa May reverted to type. She left intact Margaret Thatcher’s unconditional support for Peter Wright’s South Yorkshire police in 1985, and sealed the Orgreave scandal up again, like the coal still buried beneath Britain.

Source: The Guardian May 18, 2017 04:30 UTC