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The British state failed the victims of the Hillsborough disaster and their families, Sir Keir Starmer has said, adding those who died were “unlawfully killed”.

The Prime Minister paid tribute to the families who had campaigned for the truth behind what caused the death of 97 football fans as a result of a crush at the FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield in 1989.

Campaigners , including Margaret Aspinall whose son James died at the disaster, watched on from the public gallery.

Sir Keir introduced a so-called Hillsborough Law in Parliament – the Public Office (Accountabil

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