Labour MP Andy Burnham: We'll get justice for the 96

In dusty box files in the House of Lords, there are thousands of badly photocopied papers. They look inconsequential. They are anything but. The boxes contain personal ­statements from police officers who witnessed at first hand one of the biggest peacetime disasters in our country's history.

Labour MP Andy Burnham: We'll get justice for the 96

In dusty box files in the House of Lords, there are thousands of badly photocopied papers. They look inconsequential. They are anything but. The boxes contain personal ­statements from police officers who witnessed at first hand one of the biggest peacetime disasters in our country's history.

As parliament prepares to debate the full release of documents relating to Hillsborough and the long-suspended dominos begin to fall, momentum building towards what seems more and more an inevitable release of what has shamefully been kept hidden for far too long, it's been a nervous day of remembrance and retrospect for many just as much as one of cautious hope for the future.

Andy Burnham speech in full

Andy Burnham MP has addressed the House of Commons during the Hillsborough parliamentary debate. Watch his speech in full now.

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The Hillsborough disaster's legacy of lies | David Conn

Had responsibility for the football tragedy been accepted early on, there would be no need for a parliamentary debate The families of the 96, mostly young, people who died on the terraces of Hillsborough have waited 22 years, not only for the authorities culpable to acknowledge their responsibility.

Hillsborough documents to be released

Home secretary Theresa May agrees to hand over as many as 300,000 documents on 1989 disaster to independent panel David Cameron was urged to apologise for the police failures and government cover-up surrounding the Hillsborough disaster as MPs voted for the release of all documents relating to the tragedy.

Why the silence said it all about Westminster's collusion in heinous Hillsborough cover-up

It was more an indictment of Westminster's collusion in the most heinous of cover-ups than a debate. MPs didn't argue, they simply nodded through the just and the inevitable. It took an MP who had been at ­Hillsborough as a fan, Steve Rotheram, and one who had been at the other FA Cup semi-final that day, Andy Burnham, to reduce the House to an embarrassed silence, as they outlined with passion and eloquence what Burnham called "one of the biggest injustices of the 20th Century".

This evening, at the Houses of Parliament, we saw a revelation. After twenty-two and a half long years, the Members of Parliament present decided unanimously and without the need for a vote that the government should release all of its documents relating to the Hillsborough disaster of 1989, bringing, at long last, a chink of light to the ongoing battle of the families of those that died that day after years of struggle.

Why the silence in the Commons said it all about Westminster's collusion in heinous Hillsborough cover-up

It was more an indictment of Westminster's collusion in the most heinous of cover-ups than a debate. MPs didn't argue, they simply nodded through the just and the inevitable.

Campaigners demanding the truth about the Hillsborough disaster want to ensure no stone is left unturned as victims' families search for justice.
Pressure is growing on both the Government and News International after MPs united in their support of families of Hillsborough victims.
A motion calling for all documents - including Cabinet notes and briefings - to be handed to the independent panel set up by the former Labour Government to review the papers for public release was passed unopposed in the House of Commons.

'Time to reveal the source'

HFSG chair Margaret Aspinall and Labour MP Andy Burnham today called on Kelvin MacKenzie to finally come clean about the fabricated headlines the Sun published in the immediate aftermath of the 1989 disaster.

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Hillsborough disaster: a case of class injustice? | Michael White

Monday's Commons debate on the tragedy sounded like a prime example of old-fashioned class justice meted out to the working class by their old foe in blue – the police Despite David Conn 's excellent articles in the Guardian, I must admit to a sceptical shrug when catching the start of Monday's Commons debate on the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster.

Commons motion brings Hillsborough families a step closer to the truth

• Hillsborough Family Support Group welcomes motion • Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish praises MPs Hillsborough campaigners believe they are now edging towards discovering the truth of what happened in the tragedy more than 22 years ago after a momentous occasion in the House of Commons.