The confrontation between thousands of picketing miners and huge numbers of police outside a coking plant in Orgreave in the summer of 1984 led to 120 injuries and 95 arrests. The event itself and the controversies surrounding the handling of its aftermath were felt deeply across northern coalmining communities and beyond. In particular, the <a href="https://yvettecooper.com/2025/07/31/orgreave-inquiry-announced-after-over-40-years-of-unanswered-questions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prosecutions brought against 95 miners</a>, which collapsed amidst allegations of fabricated evidence, left a legacy of distrust in policing. Four decades on, the Labour Party has announced a statutory public inquiry into those events, something it committed to in its <a href="https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Change-Labour-Party-Manifesto-2024-large-print.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2024 general election manifesto</a>. The inquiry is set to <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/inquiry-to-uncover-truth-of-orgreave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">start this coming autumn</a>.