Victims’ Minister praises ‘landmark’ Hillsborough Law

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Victims’ Minister, Alex Davies-Jones, says the Hillsborough Law is a "landmark” bill ahead of it being laid before Parliament later today. Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00so this is a landmark bill this is the hillsborough law that the families and survivors of that tragedy

00:0636 years ago have been campaigning for for decades but although this bears the name hillsborough law

00:11this will encompass so much more than that this is a testament to the campaigning of the grenfell

00:17families and survivors those victims of infected blood of the post office scandal of the nuclear

00:21test veterans and sadly so many more cases that we know of and that exist this is a law for anyone

00:29who has been fired by the state and this bill will rectify and change the culture through two

00:33very important ways so the first and foremost is that this bill will now impose a legal duty of candor

00:39on all public servants in the uk now what that means is that every public servant anyone who works

00:44for local authority or for government or who's acting on behalf of the public has to act with

00:49honesty integrity and accountability and they have to first and foremost tell the truth

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