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Blacklisting victims welcomed the identification yesterday of a senior police officer involved in the practice which wrecked the lives of more than 3,000 construction workers.
But one victim said that despite blacklisting being exposed in 2009 it continues today — and a Greater Manchester construction site implicated in the scandal is expected to be targeted for a national demonstration in the near future.
Documents leaked to left Labour MP John McDonnell named Chief Inspector Gordon Mills of the police’s National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit (Netcu) as having met with major firms linked to the Consulting Association.
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
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