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'Liverpool FC and its fans are entitled to the formal investigation they demand'

Scarred Liverpool fans likening their treatment in Paris to the Hillsborough tragedy shames French police and Uefa.

Falsely blaming victims is another brazen cover-up for the failure of the organisers to let ticket holders safely into the Stade de France for Saturday’s Champions League final.

Mercifully, nobody was killed but the terror of those tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed, including children, is a stain on Europe’s
football chiefs and French policing that requires lessons to be learned and apologies.

Excuses from Uefa and France’s Interior Minister, inaccurately shifting responsibility on to the innocent, only adds insult to injury.

Merseyside Police on the ground in the French capital know the truth.

So too do many independent witnesses and journalists, including our own.

Liverpool FC and its fans are entitled to the formal investigation they demand.

We need truth

Evidence has emerged that Carrie Johnson held another lockdown party (Getty Images)

Evidence the PM’s wife held a lockdown party not mentioned in Sue Gray’s report means we still have not got to the bottom of what happened in No10.

Boris Johnson’s apologists, claiming lawbreaking by him and his team is no big deal, could not be wider of the mark.

There have also been claims that Downing Street tried to water down the report.

The misuse of power by Conservatives comes at considerable cost to every voter,
save their party donors and cronies.

The case for an independent review by a barrister or judge grows greater every day.

Ordinary people who made extraordinary sacrifices, unable to hug dying loved ones during the pandemic, deserve the whole truth.

Rein supreme

Horseracing legend Lester Piggott (PA)

Record-breaking champion jockey Lester Piggott was a flawed icon.

And while his career was marred by a jail sentence for tax evasion, it would be wrong not to celebrate the success of the rider dubbed the Housewives’ Choice.

Evidence the Prime Minister’s wife held another lockdown party not mentioned in an official Whitehall report that Downing Street’s accused of trying to water down means we still haven’t got to the bottom of what happened in No 10.

Boris Johnson’s apologists, defending the indefensible by claiming lawbreaking by a PM and his team is no big deal, couldn’t be wider of the mark.

Because the contempt, recklessness and bad behaviour is the misuse of power by a Conservative misruling our country at the considerable cost of every voter save wealthy Tory donors and cronies.

The case for an independent review by a barrister or judge grows greater every day. Ordinary people who made extraordinary sacrifices, unable to hug dying loved ones, deserve the whole truth,

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