Bid to reintroduce Hillsborough Law draft blocked
12 July 2025, BBC News
A Liverpool MP has said he is "bitterly disappointed" after his attempt to get the original draft of a Hillsborough Law through parliament failed.
Labour's Ian Byrne introduced the original version of the bill, drafted in 2017, to the House of Commons for a second reading, but it was blocked.
He has called on the prime minister to "bring forward the real Hillsborough Law" before he returns to Liverpool for the Labour Party Conference in September, after fears the duty of candour element had been removed from a later draft of the bill.