NUKED BLOOD: MPs demand an end to 'culture of cover-up'

There are cross-party calls for Keir Starmer to bring an extremity to the ungraded of missing aesculapian records, pursuing a harrowing caller BBC film

Politicians person demanded an extremity to the Nuked Blood Scandal aft viewing a BBC documentary into Britain's longest cover-up.

The Prime Minister has been warned helium faces a imaginable £5billion bill to settee ineligible claims of thousands of 'lab rat' veterans who had humor tests taken during Cold War weapons trials, and the results hidden from them.

The Mirror has uncovered 4,000 pages of discussions and orders for aesculapian monitoring of troops of each 3 equipped forces implicit much than a decade, arsenic good arsenic a "special directive" to "dispose" of immoderate of them.

Yet the Ministry of Defence had ever denied specified investigating ever took place, and serving Whitehall officials adjacent provided sworn grounds to aggregate courts claiming that it had not been necessary.

The one-off special, called Britain's Nuclear Bomb Scandal: Our Story, was aired successful Parliament yesterday astatine a peculiar screening organised by shadiness curate Andrew Bowie.

The Tory MP said afterwards: "What struck maine is that, arsenic a country, we're precise arrogant of however we dainty our veterans. But erstwhile it comes to this we are the worst successful the world astatine recognising what happened to those who took portion successful atomic weapons tests.

"Instead we engaged this civilization of cover-up and denial, which successful itself has caused the veterans further harm that we tin truthful spot truthful intelligibly successful this film."

Independent MP Ian Byrne, who was portion of the run to extremity the cover-up implicit the Hillsborough shot tragedy, said what happened to atomic veterans was adjacent worse.

He said: "The documentary is revelatory. It had specified an interaction connected me. Because it's not conscionable the radical who were progressive who are affected - determination are different generations coming through, and volition beryllium for galore much years. That's the quality betwixt this ungraded and each the others we've seen."

Last week PM Keir Starmer was asked to conscionable veterans to spot for himself their grounds of crimes committed by the state, but delegated work for meetings to others.

Defence Secretary John Healey said the time aft the documentary was broadcast that helium had launched an interior probe to find retired what had happened to troops' aesculapian records. It is being led by Veterans Minister Al Carns, who confirmed helium has seen the film.

But determination is simply a contention against clip to nutrient answers earlier veterans' lawyers contented a High Court assertion successful the New Year, which would extremity the accidental for veterans and ministers to person frank discussions.

Consideration is being fixed to airing the documentary successful Commonwealth nations whose troops were besides progressive successful the weapons trials, including Australia and New Zealand.

* Britain's Nuclear Bomb Scandal: Our Story is disposable connected iPlayer