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POLICE chiefs attempting to block public hearings into covert surveillance should open up and “admit what went on,” John McDonnell said yesterday.
The shadow chancellor’s intervention came ahead of a hearing of the undercover policing inquiry today, at which chairman Christopher Pitchford will hear evidence to judge how much should be heard in public.
The inquiry was ordered by Home Secretary Theresa May last summer in the wake of revelations about undercover police abuses.
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GUILLERMO THOMAS enjoys a survey of the current state of the CIA (aka Langley) from an expert and insider of sorts
Campaign group’s legal challenge against decision to approve proposals dismissed
To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped