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Shrewsbury Picket campaigners at the funeral of Arthur Murray
MOURNERS for wrongfully jailed former construction worker Arthur Murray have urged the Prime Minister to release secret government files relating to one of Britain’s worst miscarriages of justice.
North Wales construction workers, known as the Shrewsbury 24, were jailed for taking part in peaceful picketing during the 1972 national building workers’ strike.
Mr Murray was the first to submit a Criminal Cases Review Commission into their convictions, which were finally quashed in the Court of Appeal in March 2021.
Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor
KIM JOHNSON MP places the campaign in the context of the history of the working-class battles of the 1980s, and explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow
The Prime Minister’s hamfisted promotional video promising to go ‘further and faster’ coincides with Angela Rayner’s resignation over tax dodging and Mandelson’s long overdue departure over Epstein — incredible timing, writes MATT KERR