State agencies will be required to comply with public inquiries under a bill introduced tomorrow, the Government has said.

The ‘Hillsborough law’ is the result of decades of campaigning by families of victims of the 1989 disaster, in which 97 fans were killed in a crush.

Under the new legislation, state bodies and public officials will be required to fully cooperate with investigations and tell the truth.

It will also give all bereaved families non-means-tested legal aid during inquiries in which the state is involved, such as the investigations into the Grenfell Tower fire and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sir Keir Starmer said the bill, which was promised in Labour’s manifesto last year, would ‘change the balance of power in Britain’.

‘Hillsborough will always remain in our national consci

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